personal 4 March 2009
I had a chat with a friend of mine about disappointment last night and it was instructive and fun. We are both married and agreed that disappointment grows as an issue when you are cleaved to another. You gotta share it then, or at least have it all up for discussion. But I kind of miss PERSONAL disappointment, to be honest, not only because it was and is all mine but because I am the one best situated, actually, to see where I have gone wrong. Believe me, no one knows my shortcomings better than me – I have been growing and nurturing them for nigh on 47 years – so while it can sometimes be a caring/sharing thing when they are pointed out by another that’s not necessary, at all at all. Of course, there are a whole set of other newer flaws I’ve probably started up now and will have to look after for another 40 or more years. I’m wondering if they could be the truly share-able ones, while I can guard my own oldies for my own delight – guess not, we’re all made up of the old and the new and have to offer them up. I should say that in no way has my lovely Hub been pointing out Ye Olde Flawes at all at the moment, it just came up as a general subject while chewing the cud. Course now I am just waiting for the next time I have to defend myself and then see if I could get some of The Faults cordoned off for me…unlikely but might be worth a try…
