Don’t be afraid to be different… even if you are a Linda!!!!
As any of you that know me or have been following this blog will know I am not afraid to be different…. and one of the many lessons that grief has taught me is that caring what other people think is a waste of time… people are going to have an opinion on what I do and say regardless… so what’s the point in worrying about it… I can’t control other people’s opinions about me but I can control how I let their opinions affect me … ( and in short I don’t let it affect me)..
I’ve never really been a ‘follower’ anyway.. being a slave to someone else’s behaviour or lifestyle never really did if for me…mum did always say “ I don’t know what’s going to become of you” just because I didn’t conform to the norm… yes I was probably a difficult enough child to raise and I remember so many times mum being so exasperated with me just because I wasn’t behaving like everyone else…
“why can’t you be more like…..?” (various different names completed this sentence depending on what the current situation was) was another sentence I can hear mum saying to me constantly.. “because I don’t want to be like …..” I would retort….
I’d love to be sitting right now having a conversation with mum about so many things.. ( The Kardashians would not be on the agenda!!).. but in the last 6 years since she has been gone so much has changed not just in my life but in the world..
…who’d have thought Donald Trump would have ever been President of America!!!! And I’d be fascinated to know what she’d think about this blog lol 😂 …But sadly she’s not here and all I can do is be the girl that she loved .. ( in the words of Bridget Jones) “just the way I am”