Today I'm appreciative of modern communications capabilities. I had a crystal clear conversation with my mum on the phone over thousands of kilometres. My purpose for calling was to work through some issues that a traumatic family event had caused years ago. I'm just now able to offer forgiveness to my mum and myself for our parts in it. The phone line meant we could have the conversation in real-time with no delay even though we're not on the same continent. We cried together, apologised to each other and mentally hugged. Obviously the ideal would have been to have the conversation face-to-face, but that would have meant waiting a year or more until we're in the same country again. As my mum said as we were hanging up, 'you can't put these conversations off. When it's the right time, you just have to have them.' So thank you to telecom companies, to mums and to forgiveness.
(7/100 #100happydays Is written on The Migraine Game blog.)
(8/100 #100happydays I forgot to write yesterday.)
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