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I'm back, for real this time!
13 years ago
General
I am so sorry that I have been gone so long. I know that my hiatus was twice as long as what I said it was going to be but I ran into a spate of bad luck that really tested me.
First was my Myanmar trip. It had to be cancelled halway through because two members of the team were injured in a boating accident that ended badly, so that was a bummer....
Then when I returned home my mother caught severe food poisoning and I had to spend the better part of a week caring for her alone because my dad was out of the country and my sister was taking part in a school camp. It was very tiring and I could not do anything but collapse in bed at the end of every day (She's better now though.)
Then, as icing on the cake, three days ago I was riding my bike and I tried to do a wheelie (probably not the best idea, in retrospect) and as expected, I fell off and injured my back. I thought it was fine until nighttime, when the pain in my back grew so agonising I could not walk. I had to be rushed to the accident and emergency and I spent two days in hospital drifting in a narcotic haze.
But as the old poem goes....
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
-Invictus
William Ernest Henley
This poem is about never giving up, and while I felt close at times, I managed to pull through.
So yeah. I'm back, no kidding, for realsies and I'll upload some art soon.
It's good to be back.
First was my Myanmar trip. It had to be cancelled halway through because two members of the team were injured in a boating accident that ended badly, so that was a bummer....
Then when I returned home my mother caught severe food poisoning and I had to spend the better part of a week caring for her alone because my dad was out of the country and my sister was taking part in a school camp. It was very tiring and I could not do anything but collapse in bed at the end of every day (She's better now though.)
Then, as icing on the cake, three days ago I was riding my bike and I tried to do a wheelie (probably not the best idea, in retrospect) and as expected, I fell off and injured my back. I thought it was fine until nighttime, when the pain in my back grew so agonising I could not walk. I had to be rushed to the accident and emergency and I spent two days in hospital drifting in a narcotic haze.
But as the old poem goes....
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
-Invictus
William Ernest Henley
This poem is about never giving up, and while I felt close at times, I managed to pull through.
So yeah. I'm back, no kidding, for realsies and I'll upload some art soon.
It's good to be back.
