オランダへようこそ

夏休みの週末

台風の影響で予定が大番狂い

という方も多いのでは？

Monica家は

朝ん歩の後

お気に入りのお店の10周年イベントに

行って

12時過ぎには帰宅

今日はお出掛けを控えた方が多いのか

どの道もスイスイ🚗💨💨

順調に行って帰ってきました

大番狂いと言えば、、、

「オランダへようこそ！」

というドラマの中で知った時に

涙が溢れてきて止まりませんでした*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･' (*´ O `*)'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*

たとえどんなに綿密に準備したとしても

でも

決めた通りのことしか

起こらなかったら

決めた通りの人にしか

出会わなかったら

そこには

トキメキ✨✨

や

喜び💕💕

驚き‼️

つまり

はないですよね

想定外のことって

ワルイことばかりじゃない

思いもしなかったからこそ

何が起きても

どんなココロで受け止めるのか

なのかなって思うのです

だから

っていうのかな

いろんな経験をいっぱいした分だけ

感動も増える✨✨✨✨✨

夏休みは

いつもとは違う体験をする

絶好のチャンスですね！

英語ですが

是非一度読んでみてくださいね！

WELCOME TO HOLLAND

 

by Emily Perl Kingsley

 

 

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

 

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.