Very very true!!! I keep entering virtual races and telling hubby it's better than wasting it on wine on a night out!!! He can't complain at that can he?! Like the better than chocolate thought too!!! š xx
Well done. The programme works, but it takes quite a bit to get to the point you've reached. I like your quote. It's dead right, isn't it? I remember reading a book years ago that I can hardly remember, apart from one thing. The main character worked as a teacher, but said he was an architect. His argument was that you Are what makes you tick, not what you do to survive. (So if the character had been a better teacher, his job and his description would've aligned - which would have ruined the story -- which I have forgotten). It's a good point. We often take the label that's handed out to us at wherever we work as the one to paste on our foreheads, but so often the true label would be completely different. (For instance I am actually a Great Tyrant, in spite of my never having found work in that line). An American friend of mine actually made the same point to me in a letter once. The world was calling him a fax machine salesman, but really he was a surfer.
Thanks Gary! We are all good at labelling ourselves, and I tend to focus on the negative, that's why the quote helped me. Probably also a bit about finding out about myself now my children are both over 18, I'm not always labelled as somebody's Mum! I need to find some more positive labels for my forehead!
I think part of the problem there is that in the overcorrection made in making the workplace open to women, the virtues of going off to wear some kind of harness every day were overrated, and some needless scorn was dumped on those who prefer not to risk outsourcing their parenting (which is just an exageration to simulate a lurch of overcorrection back in the other direction). To be more plain, full time mums don't get the respect they deserve, these days.
And there's the other side of all those labels. Half the time the value we attribute to the "good" ones is almost as bad a mistake as the way we undervalue the "bad" ones.
Probably what we should default to more is, "I like to X", where that can replace "I am an X". (And push identity as close as possible to Popeye's wise , "I yam what I am an that's all that I yam".) For cases where it's nice to wear a hat for a while, there's "I am what makes me tick", though.
Congratulations love the T shirt I bet you had a big smile on your face for the whole run Enjoy your graduation day and bask in the glory. Really well done and happy running
Many congratulations Deborah, its a great achievement and one to feel justifiably proud of. You most certainly are a runner, and a runner who's looking particularly fine in that lovely blue graduate T-shirt. Well done
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