Archive for May, 2010
On the night before the last day in my current apartment I’m feeling an unexpected sense of loss. I’ve been looking forward to moving thinking of it as leaving negative energy for new positive energy, a fresh new start in a new apartment in a new (to me) area of town. I’ve been so busy with work and I’m still not even close to being packed so I’ve had no time to even think about what it all means. Then in a moment, reality started to sink in that I’m leaving this home and it feels like I’m leaving this period of my life, which is scary. Some tears started to appear as sadness set in and then I wondered why? Why would I be sad leaving when I’ve been looking forward to getting out of here? Why this scary feeling when this period of my life in this apartment holds mostly bad memories?
Although “Why” by country artists Rascal Flatts was released in the fall of 2009, I only heard it for the first time today and was tearing up in seconds. The lyrics, the music, the voice and the video are all very powerful on the subject of suicide and what its like to be a loved one left behind.
Depression? It’s just the new trendy illness! An article from U.K. Daily Mail’s columnist Janet Street Porter has left me in complete shock at its uneducated and ignorant opinions on depression This type of irresponsible journalism could potentially set the mental health anti-stigma movement back a few decades and lead sufferers to feel worse than they already do.
A relaxing video by Hennie Bekker shot on the beach on New Years Eve 2009 in Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo. Music is from the track “Journey On” from the album “Exotic Spa”.