Just because I haven't been posting doesn't mean that the countdown hasn't still been pursued 💫🦋🌞 I hope as I share on how to put things into perspective you also take some time out to realise that sharing and "living" for social media is not ideal.. So many out there live for that perfect next shot or share that can be showcased to portray one's "perfect and ideal" life when behind the scenes we all know that life is not just sunshine, rainbows and unicorns 🌞🌈🦄🙏✨
And so to the crux of my post - today, 30 days to my 40th birthday, I have lost my beloved and amazing Aajima 💕💫🙏 - my 91 year old special maternal grandmother aka Mom's Mom aka Shantibhen Vallabh born 6 August 1932 and passed away today, 3 October 2023. Nothing is as sobering as realising that someone you've known your whole life and so intimately won't live through another sunset yet alone a sunrise or anything else... Death is sobering and something so few talk about and yet it is something that is not only inevitable, but absolutely 100% undoubtedly completely and utterly certain for every single one of us no matter your race, gender, creed, background, status or or or...
A topic so often shyed away from, and yet from someone who has experienced this a fair amount of times in my 39 year old existence specifically with some of the 3 closest to me in the last 13 month period, I can say based on my own experience that death allows us perspective and permission to live. And to live more fully, meaningfully and purposefully🙏💫🌈
Death is part of our daily existence from fellow loved and so many other unknown humans to pets to nature in the form of seasons as well as the daily rising and setting of the sun signalling the beginning and ending life, cycles, chapters and seasons 🌈💫🙏💕🌞🦋
How apt that as we bear this deep loss of a matriarchal motherly figure so deeply loved by so many, my family have also experienced the birth of a beautiful new bountiful baby girl - the first in a good 27 years in the Harry family 💕🌞🦋 And so as I experience these many blessings and opportunities for perspective with milestone birthdays and other life events including my own, I hope that my experience gives you the permission to do so in your own life 🦋🙏💫
What is that you would do or change in your own life if you knew today would be your last sunset? What would you say, share or hold on to or let go of or celebrate and acknowledge or forgive or or or in your own world? Who would you call to say sorry, or I'm thinking of you or I love you? Who? And most importantly what would YOU do for YOU. And your soul and being to know or feel that you'd done your absolute best you could in the time, space and capacity you had/have right now 💫🙏🎉🦋💕🌈🤍
So as I commemorate my special and most awesome, amazing awe-inspiring Aajima and my own #40to40 now currently at #30to40, I hope you take some time out to do and BE you and be gentle, kind and loving to you, yourself and YOU 🤍🌈💕💫💛
Here are some awesome snaps of my anazing Aajima - she was a queen of the camera and never shyed from having her photo taken🥰 Enjoy...
Till next time then special ones,
Much love, sunshine and light always, Poonam
3 October 2023, 19:23, SA
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