Wise Friend.
I have a highly educated friend working in garden maintenance. He asked me to join him for two weeks. I wanted to do some physical work and accepted. We joke with quizzing customers about both us having masters, being avid readers, and somehow having become blue-collar workers.
Wow Friend,
How do you cope with the physical work?
Wise Friend,
Gosh! It is hot and hard! At the end of each day I’m tired and euphoric, intoxicated with feeling great. I love being outside, and I love hard physical work.
Wow Friend,
Shall I envy you?
Wise Friend,
Yes, please do!
We chitchat a lot. My friend mentioned that one little conversation back at home becomes an obsession for a man if he works alone and nobody distracts him. This is the risk of men doing manual work by themselves.
I attended my book club today. Mainly women. I repeated to them what he told me. You should have heard them! This is what they said:
“Women are extremely well at making an elephant out of a fly inside their heads.”
“They speak with girlfriends, and they expect full support for the ‘seriousness’ of the issue. If the friend tries to shake them up, to check their priorities, the anger would be endless.”
“She goes back home and lashes out emotionally.”
“It’s a myth that women don’t obsess.”
I was speechless. Did you know that? How clueless am I?
Wow Friend,
Somehow, yes. What’s happenning in your home?
Wise Friend,
We are human. Sometimes, we lash at the other. You don’t want to witness that. Thanks God we love each other!
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