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Day 753 March 30, 2016
Prompt: Why are we conditioned into the strawberry and cream, Mother
Goose world, Alice in Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we
grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility
in life? Sylvia Plath. What is your take
on this?
The brilliance of Plath’s tormented insight has been
revealed to me more and more I as age.
The way in which she viewed the world around her and her place in it,
was remarkably developed and venerable for someone so young. She tragically
bore the “dull responsibility” in life for as long as she could and I think of
her struggle often these days. Writing, I hope, brought her some respite from
those dark hours. I know that it does
that for me sometimes. I think I agree
that we, young girls in particular, are conditioned with fairytales and fables.
I think they are far less a staple of growing up than they used to be. I believe the collective conscious of today
crafts warrior princesses who do the rescuing, brave girls who engineer and
invent and young minds who solve problems and tote the motto, #smartisthenewcool. I like to think mothers today raise girls who
have a confidence and a vision for themselves and like me, look for the real
life lessons in those old Mother Goose stories. Also, I’m not sure I see myself
as an individual with a “dull responsibility in life”. There are days of drudgery of course, but
those days don’t carry the script of my existence. Have I been broken on the wheel? Absolutely.
Several times over at certain points in my life…but for each “down” there has
always been a resounding “up”. Becoming
an individual is the beauty of the journey, with all its vivid pain and joy. The
times when I have been broken, have allowed me to grow into something more. I
love Alice and I wish sometimes the world was more “Wonderland” but one can
only get lost among the mome raths for so long before having to grow up. I know that and I make sure my daughter does
too. I might not be able to spare her the wheel but I can do my best to prepare
her for it.
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DAY 1232: March 30, 2016
Prompt: What does success mean to you?
Success is something I think a lot about. My type A personality tells
me that the more power and authority I have in my career, the more successful I
will be. I am driven, at times, beyond
my own real ambitions I think. If I were to consider the question of what success
legitimately means to me, I think my actual opinion would be far less lofty and
almighty. I would like to have recognition
for my accomplishments in a very male dominated industry. I would like my contributions to the company
to be acknowledged among my peers in that industry. I would like to be seen as
someone who “knows their stuff” and who’s opinion and insight matters. Do I need to be CEO? Some days it is easy to get lost in that fantasy
but truth be told, I don’t want to sacrifice all that I would need to in order
to be a good CEO. Having the finances to make home improvements, send my
daughter to piano lessons and summer science camps and to take that annual
vacation…that’s a more attainable way to define my success. I think just being
able to live life as full as one can, with as much contentment as possible and without
the stress of surviving from paycheck to paycheck, I think that makes us
successful.
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