Lava Queen

     Few days ago I received news that a friend had passed on due to cancer. It took me 2 days to accept the fact that she was no longer around, but I still get teary when I think or speak of her… She was one of the good ladies whom I met when I started Zumba - always so energetic, fun, enthusiastic and encouraging. She did Zumba almost everyday, besides other classes. I often told her I really admire her energy and stamina. Though I’m not really a dancing person, watching her dance inspired me to put in more ‘heart’ and simply enjoy the music n steps. We often chatted about traveling and food coz we both love those, shared pictures, experiences, where to eat, what’s nice etc. When Covid happened, with no traveling/gym/eating out/meeting often, we continued to check on each other from time to time, changed our chat topics to what we cooked, shared recipes, shared our days, encouraged each other on stress days (work stress for her n online classes stress for me) and sent food to each ot