It is a sad thing when someone achieves their dream only to have to give it up because of the things that life has thrown at them in the past twelve months, my friend is having to do this and I am helping her now to empty the shop and put away her dreams. Always she is putting others before herself, but it is the way things have to be for the moment, she cannot look after her family and continue her dream, because to do so would surely end up killing her with the stress that it would cause and the almost impossible round of 24 hour days she would have to endure. Dreams are fragile things like the gossamer web of a spider they can dissolve under pressure from outside sources.

The strength of others often amazes me, people that you thought would crumble at the first hurdle not only surmount it but go on to constantly surmount hurdles for the rest of their lives, sometmes with ease and grace and sometimes with much effort and stumbling, but get there they do. I hope that this last hurdle will not be the one that makes my friend stumble and fall, and because I know of the things she has faced and faces still, I know I will be there to help lower the hurdle with the others that will also be there. Friendship is one of the most important commodities we have and it costs us nothing but our time and affection.

Have a great Tuesday people :wave:

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