Solitude

“Even the littlest flower can withhold a storm” My little niece, Alyshana Ariel was diagnosed with thalassemia major at the age of 1 year 9 months. Children born with thalassemia usually develop the symptoms of severe anaemia within the first year of their life. They lack the ability to produce normal, adult haemoglobin and experience chronic fatigue. They may also fail to thrive, but luckily my niece had her early treatments. My little niece had her weekly transfusion, and I remember when she used to cry so much when the doctors poked needles in her.   Having sufficient blood packs in the blood bank was difficult, my sister had to spread the news about her daughter, pleading for friends and family to help donate blood to my little niece, luckily for us, we have a big family and my sister have amazing friends. News spread like wildfire, and soon a lot of people knew about Ariel. The first time Ariel went for blood transfusion, she was scared, only a child at 1 year ...

I lost a very dear friend of mine at a very young age. It was hard for me to cope without her, everything about her paints a portrait of me. Everything I am at this moment, I give it all to her, everything of me, it is because of her - my interest in singing, in drawing and reading all comes from her. Losing her was by far the hardest pain I have been through and it left a huge scar, though my scars doesn’t make me sad, instead these permanent scars tells me whatever I had been through it made my heart and desire stronger. I have to admit it was hard accepting that she is not physically with me anymore, but that doesn’t mean she is a forgotten echo. I will forever remember her.             Oh how much I miss you dear Amanda, I will never forget you. It has been 8 years without her, but I will forever remember her through the memories, and through a song I wrote of her. I won’t go chasing, chasing waterfall...