In Six Months’ Time, it will be summer, and I will complain about the Greek heat and humidity levels that keep rising and rising, year after year, and I will get a short haircut because I can’t stand the sweat on the back of my neck. I will groan and slap mosquitoes off my face. I will splash around in the balmy Mediterranean sea and maybe get to witness tiny loggerhead Caretta caretta turtles flip-flapping towards the wavelets and swimming away. I will drink too much coffee, and too many beers, and spend one evening enjoying a margarita that tastes like salted lemonade at the beach bar while admiring a magnificent sunset. I will eat too many pies and nuts and too much Graviera, and regret it later that day. I will feed and pet the stray cat(s) brave enough to climb to our balcony and itching for food and love. I will finish my ‘To Be Read’ pile that’s currently accumulating dust, and finally write reviews. I will listen to those songs—the ones that speak to my soul—late at night, sitting on the balcony, my feet up on the rail tapping the tempo of the wishes I'll make while gazing upon falling stars.
In Six Months’ Time, I will celebrate being done with the health issue that has been on my mind since October, the health issue I mentioned to three doctors over the past five years, the health issue none of them took seriously.
In Six Months’ Time, it would have been cancer and a whole different story, a whole different treatment, a whole different prognosis, a whole different summer.
But it was caught on time.
In Six Months’ Time, I’ll still be complaining and smiling too much, and laughing out loud, and speaking and writing my truth.
In Six Months’ Time, I’ll appreciate every minute until I forget to, and revert to taking life for granted.
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DELPHINE GAUTHIER-GEORGAKOPOULOS is a Pushcart nominee Breton writer, teacher, mother, nature and music lover, foodie, dreamer. She loves butter, needs coffee, hates easy opening packaging, and likes to create stories in her head. She lives in Athens, Greece. X/BS/Facebook: @DelGeo14.
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