Acting Like a Grown-Up
Some believe this means being boring. Staid. No fun. All responsibility and no spontaneity. Au Contraire. Of course this is just my perspective, but… Being a (single) grown-up means: You can decide when it’s time to act silly…and enjoy doing so…without worrying about what others think. You can designate one day a week as the “blob day.” Mine is Sunday. With a few rare exceptions, I do absolutely nothing that I don’t absolutely want to do. Oddly enough, some Sundays are my most productive days… You can choose to have cold cereal for dinner, and enjoy it. (Some nights this is JUST the thing for me. No sad little single moaning here. I love Weetabix, with very, very cold milk.) You’ve learned that kindness is both a virtue AND a skill. A skill that...
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