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Saturday, October 15, 2011
I heard the chorus of an ABBA song today and was instantly hooked.
Jas says its Thank You for the Music.
Love the happy tune.
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When there is a crisis in the family, should we not band together and overcome it as one?
It is a month to your school play. Youve been practicing hard for the past 2 years so your parents can be proud of you when you finally perform on your kindergarten graduation night. Yet a month before that, your mother leaves the family for another man, and have their own children. Theyre happy. In your misery and loneliness, you and your siblings approach your grandnanny, hoping she'd offer some advice and support, yet instead of "Hey there's still Daddy and me! Dont fret!", she lets you sit in her lap one day as she knits, and says, "Its your fault that Mummy left. You havent been good children. Whats with your sorry attitude. I myself had my distant cousin leave the family for another man too, and i hadnt gone crying to my granny. Suck it up."
Wouldnt you wonder what had gone through her mind when she used to stress the importance of kinship as she held your hand through her garden?
{I know this story sounds choppy and is probably of little significance to those who are not aware of the context that ive juxtaposed it against, but for others who identify with me,
peservere. there's no other option.
[/edit] Thought i could do without a disclaimer, but well, here it is:
This is an analogy. It has nothing to do with my biological family.
Any resemblence of the figures in the story to real characters is for the sole purpose of emulating an exchange between a representative of an institution and a sorry audience.
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