The opening line is from You Can’t Have it All by Barbara Ras. It wasn’t a prompt that I took well but I did manage to move into it after the first two paragraphs. I wrote this about one year or two years back. I had been moving away from Wild Writing because to be honest, it was just serving the function of content provision for my blog and now my travelogue is taking the lion’s share of what I consider Personal Showcase alongside my newfound identity as a Game Master etc.
You can’t have it all but there is this. There is the PC that you can use to do so many things: to write, to read and to play. The PC is so much the centre of your life right now.
You can’t have it all but there is this. There is your bed that you’ve slept in such that it is a little softer on your side. Last night it was so cold that Mum said that cold was keeping her awake so she said she will throw on an extra blanket and then the two of you slept so well that you felt you could lie in bed forever.
You can’t have it all but there is this. You can have a best friend that you never intended to keep as a best friend but has nevertheless blossomed into a relationship that lasted over 20 years. In fact, it was almost two-thirds of your life. That’s something.
You can’t have it all but you can be born as an alternate version of your mother. I swear I was not nurtured to be that way but that it was a fluke of nature, mostly.
You can’t have it all but there are always little chance discoveries that seem so fortuitous, once in a while.
You can’t have it all but there is always the day to day progress that moves regardless of whether you move or not.
You can’t have it all but there is this: if you stick to what makes you happy, you will be happy. Trust yourself.
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