tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488710655024487548.post7992513869746622624..comments2023-09-08T00:31:04.995+12:00Comments on Adrienne Rewi Online: Changing DirectionsAdrienne Rewihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04187339453802536156noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488710655024487548.post-45184415045039339192015-09-12T17:41:45.371+12:002015-09-12T17:41:45.371+12:00Sorry I have been late reading this Adrienne - an...Sorry I have been late reading this Adrienne - and I am glad Graham commented as he has been following my earthquake updates for five years....but I loved this article - well said.. It is time to look forward and enjoy the new start. Change is inevitable, we just had an awful lot happening at once against the background of the losses. A friend commented on how much has happened to us in our lives over five years - things that would have happened regardless, but made bigger by the stress we were ALL under due to the earthquakes. I guess it didn't kill us so we must be stronger...and I do feel that way. I love getting out and exploring the new places emerging.<br />Fi :)Fi from Four Paws and Whiskershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11217307759511472654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488710655024487548.post-17317502862782862522015-09-07T16:08:51.801+12:002015-09-07T16:08:51.801+12:00Thanks for your comments Graham. Some may think it...Thanks for your comments Graham. Some may think it glib of me to write of "moving on from the earthquakes" - and I certainly appreciate that everyone in this city will react differently to different pressures, to different stresses; and that not everyone is ready to move on. But for me, five years of chaos and uncertainty is enough..and by that I mean my attitude toward chaos and uncertainty. For me it is time to move on emotionally. Life will always deal us uncertainties of course, but for me, it's time to stop registering everything in terms of earthquakes and their aftermath.<br /><br />It's important to note though, that post-house repair, I'm still dealing with EQC on drainage repairs and the remedial fixing of some internal repairs, so I'm sure there will still be days when I want to scream in frustration - quite possibly next week in fact <br />[Change takes time :-)]Adrienne Rewihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04187339453802536156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488710655024487548.post-67230560325457223122015-09-07T00:27:18.573+12:002015-09-07T00:27:18.573+12:00It's interesting to see you back in Blogland (...It's interesting to see you back in Blogland (however temporary that may be) and see your new perspective. I've kept up with some of your writings through a Christchurch friend. Your new approach has not only made me reassess my view of what is now happening in Christchurch from which I am physically remote but has also made me think again about my approach to changes in the city of my birth (which I rarely visit and live far away from) which was born again out of the ruins of the Blitz and is now re-inventing itself in so many ways that when I go back whole areas no longer exist as they did when I was a child or even a young man. Of course it's not the same thing as the trauma Cantabrians have endured but much of what you say still applies. I appreciate that.Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.com