Cards...

Since a very close friend of mine is leaving next week I decided to get her a card. I  think that a card is a signature of your appreciation towards a person that you respect and admire. I always like to show my friends how much I care for them by choosing a card that best describes how I feel and how I want them to feel about whatever the case may be, I always think that showing people what they mean to me is always nice and affective. it will prove to them just how much I care. Anyways, as I was browsing for the perfect card this afternoon I thought to myself “ amazing! for every occasion there is a card” So I guess there should be no excuse for us to ignore the people that we love, I think the least we can do is buy a card especially if that person is far away from home, I don’t know why I like buying cards, maybe because I could really express how I feel toward anyone by just giving a card to a certain person. When I was young, I use to create cards and give them out to my friends for their birthdays or for just thanking them cause they did something that I was grateful for, I think it is the best way to thank someone. The best card that I did was the one I did for my mom when I was just 11 years old, I remember that day as if it was yesterday, it was mother’s day and my mom was away cause she was sick, I wanted to give her something that she can keep forever, so I made her a card and here is what I said to her “ mammy I love you and I want your pain to go away, I know that god will be with you cause you are the best mom and all of us here are missing you and wishing you a happy mother’s day, mammy you are the best mama in this whole entire world” . I actually forgot about this card until a month before mama passed away she gave it to me and she told me that she kept it with her all the time and that she wants me to keep it with me cause she thought that it will somehow bring me luck, I still have it, and every time I look at it, it brings tears to my eyes cause it reminds me of so many things and most importantly it reminds me of how much I love and miss mama.

Attitude....

last night as I was driving back home I thought about the conversation that I had with my friend which was about attitude and how people react about certain things that we face in life I came to realize that the longer I live, the more I see the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. We are in charge of our Attitudes, I could be wrong but this to me makes total sense.

Anyways, I am sitting in my backyard now it is nice and sunny outside a little cloudy, I am thinking to go for a long walk but I am a little lazy maybe because I just got up or maybe cause today is my lazy day where I like to take my time in doing anything, I don’t know why Sundays has always been my lazy days, maybe if I get myself a big cup of coffee it will give me some energy to start my day and to go for my walk, I have to do it, because before we know it the cold weather will come again and then we will not be able to do anything… I can smell the grass and the trees I love this smell, it always reminds me of my childhood, back when I was still in Nigeria and after each rain fall I use to go out stand in our huge garden and smell the beauty of nature, what I love about Canada is that when it rains in the summer it always brings me back to my childhood, cause in Nigeria it use to always rain in the summer and it is where my childhood was I only wish that I could go back in time and enjoy it one more time just for one day and come back, if only…….

News and The ugly truth and Nonesense

A very close friend of mine told me today that she will be leaving soon, to peruse her career oversees, she said that she will be leaving in 10 days, I was shocked when I heard the news, I felt like something is been ripped away from me, but as I always say this is life and life has to go on, I just hope that she will come and visit us often, I will of course be visiting her too and that’s for sure..

Anyways few days ago I went with some of my friends to the movies and we saw The Ugly Truth , it is a very funny movie, yea it is romantic comedy but I think that guys will enjoy it as much as the ladies cause it is based on our differences ( I mean men and women) and what we think of men and how we want men to treat us and vice versa, it is a nice way of putting a smile in our faces and I think it is a great escape from reality, but is it really true that all men see in women is the outside and never the inside, is it really true that they don’t care how we think and what we want??? And us women are so romantic and we think that they actually listen to us when we talk to them? But as it is in the movie the truth is ugly, and we have to accept it no matter what, regardless how true the movie is, I thought it was very funny and I think that Gerard Butler is very cute and that to me is the ideal man, but if only he is real… I also think that Katherine Heigl is very cute and funny; I think that they both made cute couple in the movie (this is what I call real chemistry) . I recommend it to anyone and take my word, you will enjoy every second of it.

Tonight is one of those nights that I am thinking of so many things and cannot put myself at ease I have no idea why? It could be cause my friend is leaving soon, or maybe cause I think that my life needs a serious change? So many things is possible, but for now I feel a little relaxed and I think that whatever I am writing now makes no sense what so ever, but still I am typing and while I am typing I am thinking what will my next sentence be, or how will I end this stupid post, maybe by just stop typing, if my mom was still here and I was talking to her nonsense she would say to me “ Imane have faith and relax and do what you do best "read" this will help you forget and help put your mind at ease for a while” what is funny about this is that I can hear her say that to me, ooo how much I wish that she was here with us. Anyways, I think that I should go get a book and read, maybe this will help me forget or at least help my eyes and me go to sleep.