{"id":443,"date":"2011-06-14T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2011-08-13T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T00:11:33","slug":"curve-balls-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2011\/uncategorized\/curve-balls-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Curve Balls in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

These past few weeks have been taxing. Another curve ball came, when my 95 yr. old mother was hospitalized after a fall. While enroute to see her, I read the brilliant article Unspoken Truths<\/a> by Christopher Hitchens. In it, he writes about what he’s been dealing with as his cancer progresses. His well-known voice is slowly disappearing, something he never thought would happen.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As mentioned in the Vanity Fair article, the curve balls in life bring the unexpected. With our daughter fighting breast cancer and my mother in her sunset time, I have discovered the pain of seeing people I love suffer and feeling helpless in their presence. I’m not the one fearing for my life, and yet, I have sleepless nights and little peace of mind. I find myself fighting to regain some balance, knowing how little my worries help.<\/p>\n

When my other daughter was very young, she recited that old saying, “you’ll miss the water when the well runs dry.”\u00a0 We all miss what we once had. But then again, life is not life witout bumps. Every one faces them at some point in their lives. It’s how we ride them that matters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These past few weeks have been taxing. Another curve ball came, when my 95 yr. old mother was hospitalized after a fall. 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