Day 11

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 Here are a few things I am grateful for today:

1. Papa is well. 

2. Went to A's place to check on her because she was unwell. But we planned the children's birthdays instead and I had pizza. That was lovely!

3. I thought of taking her some attars as well. The Ajmal store on Linking Road is a happy place. Yes, the attendants are mostly young men who would rather be chilling in a cave than be selling stuff (which is the attitude of all salespeople in the shops in Linking Road now). But the cloud of scents is awesome. A customer tried out a scent called Raindrops and I immediate wanted to befriend her and tell her that my birthday is coming up. 

4. I wore a fluffy snow white cotton dress from Zara. So comfortable!

5.  Came across this poem and I think it's just lovely:

Before the Big Bang

there was no up

there was no down

there was no side to side

there was no light

there was no dark

nor shape of any kind

there were no stars or planet Mars

or protons to collide

there was no up

there was no down

there was no side to side

and furthermore to underscore this total lacking state

there was no here

there was no there

because there was no space

and in this endless void which can’t be thought of as a place

there was no time

and so no passing minutes, hours, days

of all the paradoxes

that belabour common sense

I think this one’s the greatest

this time before events

because how did we go from nothing

to infinitely dense?

from immeasurably small

to inconceivably immense?

but before we get unmoored from the question at the start

let’s take a breath and marvel

at when math becomes an art

because we don’t have to understand it

to know there was a time

when there was no up

there was no down

there was no side to side

~ Reina del Cid


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