| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 865.1 | I love it! | SWSNOD::DALY | Serendipity 'R' us | Thu Jun 02 1988 08:45 | 4 |
| Great analogy! One aspect I love about it is the fact that in real
life as you "grow" a child, you often wonder who is teaching whom!
Mairon
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| 865.2 | friends | BLURB::RANDALL | Bonnie Randall Schutzman | Thu Jun 02 1988 09:25 | 13 |
| If the quote inspires you, great, but for me one of the key points
of being a mother is that I'm raising my children to go off and
leave me. So thinking of my life as something I'm going to raise
and push off to be independent of me doesn't make sense. I mean,
me and my life is old buddies, you know? We ain't going nowhere
without each other.
Though I guess if you think of children as something that you
shape and mold in your own ideas of wisdom, instead of as
independent people in their own right, then it makes some sense to
think of life that way.
--bonnie
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| 865.3 | | CUBFAN::STHILAIRE | Best before Oct. 3, 1999 | Thu Jun 02 1988 11:58 | 11 |
| Re .2, but, Bonnie, even though I want my daughter to be an independent
person in her own right, I also want us to be "old buddies", too!
We enjoy one another's company now and I hope to always be able
to count her among my closest friends.
As far as the quote goes, I don't really see life as either my master
or my child. Maybe more like a salesperson that I have to barter with
for good deals!
Lorna
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| 865.4 | yeah, that's what I meant | BLURB::RANDALL | Bonnie Randall Schutzman | Thu Jun 02 1988 12:41 | 10 |
| re: .3
Lorna, your first paragraph says very succinctly what I was trying
to say -- I hope my daughter will always be my friend, and I hope
my life and I will always be friends, too.
Wish I had your talent for getting to the heart of the matter instead
of talking around it all the time.
--bonnie
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| 865.5 | | MOSAIC::TARBET | | Thu Jun 02 1988 13:01 | 3 |
| Lorna, I love your characterisation of Life!!
=maggie
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| 865.6 | | 3D::CHABOT | Uppity Woman | Thu Jun 02 1988 14:50 | 6 |
| I like the child - life analogy too. I mean, there are parts of
my life that are independent of my control, such as friendships
or things I've built. They may start out from me, and get some
nurturing from me, and sometimes even come back to me, but the pleasure
of them is that they aren't just me. But they are sort of like
me, too.
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