Sunday, November 11, 2007

Twitching to Leave

Well this will be my last official weekend living in Nova Scotia. I am sad and happy at the same time. The past 4 1/2 years have been quite an adventure and I am more fortunate than most to have been given the opportunity to be part of a project that engineers sometimes dream of. Building "things" are a lot of fun and I have been part of a great team! It will be hard to match the friendships and talent that I have been part of.

As I mentioned many times, I also feel grateful to have gotten sick in Nova Scotia. Getting cancer certainly is not much fun and I don't recommend it to anyone. But as someone asked me the other day "What disease do you want to have?". This was an interesting question and made me think of how lucky I probably am. I have been Graced with a Power to deal with 2 illnesses; alcoholism and cancer. When I was young, I never dreamt this would happen to me but they have. I don't believe for a second that God gave them to me. I think this is part of life's odds and a roll of the dice of the human gene pool. What I have been given through is the opportunity to match my will with God's Will. I am not perfect in doing this because many times I have attempted force the outcome of my life's path. Sometimes it has worked.

A good example is when I went to university; I thought I was the one who got the degree and it is somewhat true. I did do the homework, however, I was just polishing the gift I was given by God. Sometimes I tried to control my kids but you know how that goes? Not well most of the time.

Therefore, during the past few months, I have had lots of time to reflect on the past, speculate into the future and most of all enjoy the present. I am ready to leave. I am ready to begin then new chapter of my life which I hope will last for a long time to come.

Thank you Nova Scotia.

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