This morning here in Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia, I am awoken once again by the first call to prayer. The Mosque is a long way from Desa Palma where the house is, but there is only one tree I think between loudspeakers on my eardrums, so there is a direct sound flow. Again he had turned the volume up so much, he was getting feedback, a high whistle.
Laying in bed, knowing that the sun would soon usher away the dark night, I wonder if I am the person he manages to wake up at such an hour. Many times on previous first calls I have looked out of the window, and never seen any lights go on as worshipers prepare themselves. I wonder how many understands him, as most of his talks seem to be in Arabic.
I take three deep breathes to stay calm and not get agitated by such an early awakening (5:30am) Perhaps I may manage to go back to sleep. If I stay calm, the prayers will end, and peace will descend upon me again.
Then the birds start their early morning calls, replacing the night insects chirping.
It seems there is a conspiracy to keep me awake, as the early morning workers on their Honda 50 motorbikes, pop, pop, pop, passed the bedroom window. The odd workers bus, with no exhaust system to silence the noisy diesel engines. The workers are off to start their working day.
Oh Poo Poo, there is nothing for it, but get up, and start my day.
Perhaps Jean-Daniel has added more to the debate we were having on the blog about NLP and PhotoReading. But it seems our dialog may have ended, there is no message.
Maybe there will not be a “Obama and Hillary” alliance, it had ended before it had even started.
I go out into the garden and look for my new friend I gained in the last week.
We have spend ages just looking at each other, there is no conversation, but that is no barrier, there has been no physical contact, we have just being there, being together, confident that we were safe with each other.
I have become quite fond of my new friend. It has not gone too far as I know my friend has their own life to get on with, but I just love being there together just for a while.
I search and search, but my friend is not there. I feel quite empty, lost.
Have I lost my friend?
Have they found another?
I know every thing will eventually come to an end, but this relationship had only just started. There is so much I want to learn, somehow this relationship left right.
I will look again tomorrow. Hopefully I will get a message, some sign that at least they are there.
My friend the lizard
Good friends are hard to come by sometimes.