Secondhand Rose
All you wives out there, let me bend your ear. Is it just me but have you noticed we women tend to be more generous about sharing our possessions than the men in our households? Do we yield to their wishes and put ours on hold? Example: when it rains, all of a sudden yours is the only car that can go out on errands. Not only that, the guys buy themselves the sexy sports cars and leave us to buy the practical family car--the one that has to brave bad weather while the wimpy jaguar cowers in the garage. Example, our new laptop eventually metamorphoses into the family computer that suffers indescribable abuse at the hands of jelly coated fingers and showers of cracker crumbs, while the guys' precious laptops remain enshrined in bulletproof glass cases heavily guarded by armed Wells Fargo guards. I think it's because we've been trained to be protective of others' feelings more than guys have. We've been trained to nurture, soften blows, ensure contentment and become perpetual trash receptacles for chewed up gum, wadded up candy wrappers, straw wrappers and vomit. And ya know what? I wouldn't have it any other way.
Now on to serious matters. I stumbled on a cheery epiphany the other day. Breaking my foot into 3 million pieces isn't so bad after all. Sure I writhe in pain and suffer from terminal and unbearable cabin fever. Sure I have to endure heavy eye rolls from those whom I must beg to help me to the bathroom. But I am rewarded with one precious thing: 30 extra seconds in the day which would otherwise be spent shaving that leg. You heard me. One whole half a minute, folks. Think what I can do with that time:pick the lint out of my belly button. Count the stains on the ceiling. Count the gum wrappers in my hand. COunt my stretch marks and old age spots. Come up with new and exciting rating systems for pain. The downside, in a few months, I'm going to half to spend hours taking a hedge trimmer to that leg. But that's then and this is now. I'm sooo lucky, aren't I? Love you all. And I'm glad it's me and not you!