“ Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain. ”
It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it.
~ Amanda Lindhout
By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.
It is an obvious fact that you can never look ahead with clarity at your own future or anybody else's. You can't know what will happen until it happens. Or maybe it dawns on you the split second before, when you get a glimpse of your own fate.
I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.
