My mother just told me that her next door neighbour asked her "what exactly is Elise aiming for?"
My mother told her she didn't know, so she asked me "what is it, fame, fortune, celebrity, what?"
Well the truth is anyone who expects any of these things is an idiot. That's not to say you can't aim at them, but you have to do it because you are doing the things in your life that fulfil you, not because they are the goal.
What I want is to do the things I want and need to do, do the things that make me happy, while at the same time making enough money out of them not to starve and be found dead in a ditch.
This has always been my aim.
I would love to be well known and rich because of the things I do - but it may never happen. Probably won't happen. Be lovely if it did, but dreams very rarely come true.
All you can ever do is do what you do.
My mother seemed satisfied with that but said it was unlikely I would die in a ditch. I don't think anyone can know how they will end up.
I am not a pessimist nor an optimist and probably nowhere near being a realist - but I am a pragmatist.
1 comment:
It could be she's just nosy.
But most often queries like this are a precursor to the age old, "Well, I have this nephew..."
Unless you want to meet a bloke blind, then your mum shall have to stonewall all prying with a, "Elise is getting along alright, but forbids me to talk about her, mind, and is not taking overtures for meeting blokes."
You never know. Some old women are looking to pair their male blood off with only an employed female. But then, maybe they want a stay at home breeder for their relative, in which case you'd jar their interest being not much is shaking except for sporadic gigs and scuffing in the garden.
You are a fine and proper lady. So queries like this will probably increase, as you haven't sullied your rep any over Wales way and are a jewel to families that want nothing to do with bastard children that most lassies your age have become strapped with.
The downside is that if your mum blurts out, "She's not seeing anybody," but then you decline even a coffee with bloke... well, then the old ladies often feel inclined to start muttering that they think you're a London streetwalker. Yes it's a cruel world out there when old hags are trying to get their male relatives paired off.
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