Monday, September 30, 2013

Life's Little Ironies*

Today, not for the first time, someone said to me:

I do admire you for what you are doing,
the more as you are but her son-in-law.



The 'but' let me smile.

She did probably take it for humility.


*With thanks to Thomas Hardy


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    1. Very kind of to say so, CherryPie.Thank you. I do prefer to be imperfect, though. At least a wee bit. :)

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    2. I think that we are all imperfect in our own way. I strive to master the imperfections I see in myself...

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  2. I'm sure you would be as good for anyone living around you who would need your help. Whatever the title!

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    1. And I'm quite sure here you do err, dear Claude, as very probably I would not do this for anyone else. And if I had known how many years of my life I'd be going to "sacrifice", I would very probably not have started this but found another solution.
      I am definitely (!) not the born carer.
      In other words: I don't do it, because I want it, or because I am "the perfect son-in-law", but because I think I have to do it.
      End of the subject.
      For now. :)

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  3. There are circumstances in life when we're obliged to be kind simply out of gratitude to the universe.

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  4. Ah, Susan, I take it before writing your comment you've read my reply to Claude's.
    The more I do thank you.
    And if you have not? :)
    Then I do thank you the more.
    Not sure my "kindness" roots in a "gratitude to the universe", but very probably what I am doing has – unknown to me – "its roots".

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  5. It's good of you Sean, whatever your reasons.

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  6. Well, it's useful for others to be kind, hm? :)

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