Friday, February 22, 2008
I've been away from blogging for since September of 2007 because of an unfortunate event, my nest door neighbors house burned down and in the process burned the second floor of my house as well. Whatever it was that wasn't burned by the fire got water damaged and all in all left me in a state of helplessness.
I've seen fires breaking out on TV and in the papers but not till you experience it first hand does it give you the sense of horror that it brings. Imagine all the stuff you love and treasured gone in an instant.
Funny thing was, I had the house redone soon after... In about a month and a half i had my house back again. This time i had all the repairs i wanted to do for the longest time... done.
My children and I lost quite a lot of things... most of which can be replaced except for some of the old pictures of my children. I did get to learn a lot about rebuilding a house. I just thought of the whole experience as a fresh new start.
That whole episode took me quite a while to get over with, but like failed relationships one just needs to move on. Not that moving on is an expertise of mine.
I lost a '62 Fender Stratocaster during the fire... my very first US made guitar which i took apart and kept in an old suitcase because i wanted to keep it instead of actually using it since i do have a nice collection of guitars that i have been using through the years. A day before the fire i had just bought another US made Fender Stratocaster which looked exactly like my old one.... Black with white pickguards and rosewood fingerboard. I was really happy i found a guitar that looked like my old one. Now the chances of that happening is really like winning the lotto! (same odds?)
I got my first strat when i was about 18 about the same time my son was born, so one can just imagine the memories associated with that guitar. I was playing around with my new strat before the day of the fire and put it at the foot of my bed. After i went up the stairs to view the damage done by the fire i was really overwhelmed by the fact that the only thing left untouched in the room was my newly acquired Fender Strat! The old one had been damaged by the fire but the new one was standing proudly at the corner of the room, at the end of my damaged bed.
Now is that a sign or what?
Perhaps it's a sign that i need to make new memories and to let go of old frustrations and disappointments.
It's a sign to move on.
A chance to start again.
:-)
more to come...
--MXRR at 12:02 PM
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