I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young.
Emily GiffinTags: age
On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say that it doesn't work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place.
Emily GiffinTags: baby-proof
I think I have always had the misguided sense that worry and fear serve as an insurance policy of sorts. On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say that it doesn't work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place.
Emily GiffinWhich always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested.
Emily GiffinTags: redheads
I feel a sudden wave of homesickness, but not the kind that makes you sad. The kind that reminds you of who you are and where you come from.
Emily GiffinYou theoretically have so much more time at home, but you fill it with the minutiae that you somehow managed to avoid when you were working.
Emily GiffinLove is sharing a life together
Emily GiffinOf course she knows that I will not join her. I have never danced on a bar. I wouldn't know what to do up there besides fall.
Emily GiffinI don't know what a carbuncle is, but it doesn't sound pleasant. I wish one upon Rachel's nose.
Emily GiffinTags: humor
I have a fleeting fantasy of telling her that procreation isn't a contest, any more than SAT scores and making the cheerleading squad and getting into a good college and all the other things, both big and small, that she turned into a contest when Janie and I were young, going all the way back to whose baby teeth came in first, according to my mother.
Emily GiffinTags: life procreation
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