The French writer, aviator, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is quoted as saying,
We are of our childhood, as we are of our nation.
I read this recently in a column in a newspaper, it struck me, so true and so simple.
I am a quote junkie, I collect them. I write them in a little black notebook.
For me and now, a little bit, for you.
I believe we really are of our childhood, we learn about love and what it means at a tender age.
Not only the love that we receive but, the example of our parents’ love for one another.
I am lucky in that way,
I come from generations of imperfect people who loved each other imperfectly,
but, love each other they did.
Quite a legacy.
We learn also to see the world in childhood, in fact many worlds, imagination is also a potent world.
We can be anything, when I was 8 or 9, I wanted to be in movies.
Later, I wanted to make them,
later still I wanted to write them.
I haven’t given up on that, yet
A girl must dream even if she is a middle-aged bookseller ( All in all a pretty cool job).
The point is I have always believed. I learnt that in my childhood.
I don’t mean to be reductive, we are of many things, childhood is very important but, so are other things.
Friendship, health, education, all of these factors impact our worldview.
The love of a cherished partner is also a major determinant, in our happiness.
I love the phrase, the love of a good woman.
I know it is slightly old-fashioned and perhaps a tad paternalistic, originally.
I don’t see it that way, I long to be some one’s good woman loving and to have it reciprocated.
Just a few random thoughts I wanted to share with you.
Later girls (or guys, I don’t discriminate)
BB
