The Ties that Bind

It was Yesterday, late in the afternoon, I felt myself caught up in everything as usual. Of course, yesterday wasn’t like any ordinary day. My sister happened to be packing up for college. She would be leaving early the next morning. I had quite mixed feelings about it, sadness, regret, excitement. Some would call it confusion, and I might agree. It was almost as if the clouds had darkened or at least it seemed so.

"It was almost as if the clouds had darkened"

That day my sister happened to be looking for a “mini screw driver”, of course I had no idea why or where it was. I remember we were searching for it for awhile. And eventually, we gave up looking. No one knew where it was. And so, at the end of the day I found myself sitting back in my comfortable chair reading. I was swept away with the adventures of Frodo Baggins and his companions, in the first installment: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Eventually I put down the book for a second, for I had approached a word I didn’t know. So I reached out for a pen so I could write it down and look it up later. It was then, when I was looking for a pen, that I had found it. I had found the mini screw driver!

"I had found the mini screw driver!"

Within that moment the skies gleamed with heavenly clouds. A revelation had hit me. While my sister may be leaving, in search of new interests and a wider world, we would still be bound by the ties that bind. The ties that would hold everything together, family. 

"Within that moment the skies gleamed with heavenly clouds."

 Forevermore, bound by the ties that bind.

~ by TelepathicPebble on August 22, 2008.