Image and text by Corey Amaro.
While eating roasted chestnuts with Annie the other day, we talked. First we caught up with each other about what was new, how we were feeling and any other little tidbits such as, "The clementines are good this year." Then like usually whoever has the need to talk starts the conversation off the beaten path to who is who, and what is what.
Annie and I spoke about how life is not perfect. How we are not perfect either… and yet how we expect life, ourselves and others to be perfect. At one point I leaned in, hugged Annie for her wisdom, telling her she was perfect to me. She shook her head, and with a sly smile said, "I am not perfect because I do not know how to use the computer."
Throughout the day I laughed about that. She knows how to let go, to let it be what it is, for better or worse. To accept it and move on. So she doesn't know how to use the computer, it is trival to her life, she knows what is important and what is not.
Annie is a survior she knows what she needs to live well and follows the path to it. Even if it means that her honesty she will hurt someone. Annie is emotionally strong. That is one of the gift she has given me: lessons on being emotionally strong, which I have a great deal to learn from.
Wisdom in small a small dose goes a long way.
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