Of knowing

The days of autograph books now seems to have become extinct. When I was in primary and secondary school, I loved being asked to sign autograph books. It gave me the opportunity to leave a verbal mark and also read what other people wrote. Probably therein lay the beginning of my interest to write and to read what others had to say.

Funnily, people wrote stuff instead of just signing their name. Some drew caricatures or put a picture. It was a chance to pen your thoughts or share a poem.

My girlfriend Chris found her old autograph book and kept it. She took a picture and put it up on Facebook. I couldn't believe it.  Thank God my writing has improved since then.  I have my old autograph book too.  I'm going to have to look for it.

I had some favourites and I can still remember them till today.

May you sail in a ship of ambition and anchor in a harbour of success!

I wish you luck, I wish you joy

I wish you first, a baby boy

and when his hair begins to curl

I wish you then a baby girl

and when her hair is up in pins

I wish you then a pair of twins

F.R.A.N.C.E

Friendship Remains And Never Can End

Remember M, Remember E
Put them together and remember ME

However, the one that I like the best is this

When day is over and shadows fall

I think and I realise that I love you most of all

It is so true that only when everything gets quiet and there is a stillness in the air, just before sleep comes, we think of who we love. This has been true for me.

No matter how many times I had thought I was in love before, this was always the acid test. In that twilight moment, between wakefulness and sleep, is when I know.

I know who I love most of all.