Diary

Your diary is filled with dates of meetings and functions that you have to attend; graduation ceremony and wine tasting events and meeting with the press secretary. I wasn’t sure if your assistant had documented it properly, but every time a special date is announced for the meeting you change it to another month. Her auntie traveled all the way from India with spices and lots of surprises for the biggest event of her life, but she has to pay a heartfelt sacrifice. When she arrived, the city was turned upside down and water had flooded the entire town so the event was cancelled and a new date was arranged. Sometimes the joy becomes pain and people think that you are insane but the trouble is there to break the bubble and set you on the right track again. You keep going around in circles flipping through the diary pages looking for that special space to write down another date. There is a long list of appointment staring at you, dinner with the ambassador, and lunch with the foreign secretary and meeting with the poor people in the community and then there is a dentist appointment and an international engagement. Take a good look at your diary and look for that special event; it is the date for your child’s first day at school and a meeting with your high school friend. There are some dates that you should not miss and some places that you should not cross but if you forget to attend her birthday, you must make it up the following day. Don’t forget the carnival and the date to launch the new show, remember to order cheesecakes puddings and pies and the new recipe for the entire family. And when the day is done you will have a whole village on the run, bags and pans, luggage on trolleys and baggage gathered in one place. You must wait for your cue to know when you are through, nothing happens before the time so circle the date. Be careful of premature and hasty decisions, because the dead will come and hunt you before your time is through. Check your dates and give me a call before it’s too late.