Alice Liddle

2018-06-14 • 126 sayfa • EN

Yazan Mark Baxter

Dear Christine,I thought you might enjoy reading this portrait of our younger selves, where the future of us being parents was but nine months away. For we were approaching the birth of our daughter, with what, I imagine, was with both excitement, and at least for me, a lot of anxiety.Reading through this, I wondered if it would trigger off any emotions or indeed regrets.I have been in a nostalgic mood of late having changed my place of work and now cycle pass the two houses where I use to live.I cycle out of my way to do this, and I wonder what it is that draws me, to look on these familiar buildings, though much different with regards to the decor and a new fence. Fencing to keep out the likes of me, I uncharitably conclude, for we never had such a need.But why so bitter at the remembrance? Because it's a past that has sadly gone, and regrets aren't far away from wishing things had remained the same.But that sort of thinking was far from our thoughts back then when the promise of new life, and a new way of life for the both of us, was in the offing. Where prams had to be bought, and the paraphernalia which made real the prospect that we were to be parents, which has been meticulously recorded for the benefit of- Yes, I dare say it, nostalgia. That, after all, is what constantly draws me and moves me to write.I hope you enjoy reading this, for I did immensely, reliving both the anxiety, but more importantly, the excitement of those heady times.Mark