WELLBEING → MUSINGS Issue 778 · September 18, 2019

I’m Not Asking for Much

This year I’m not looking for much at all, thank goodness. You know, just health, happiness, sustenance. The usual

I’m Not Asking for Much

 

Oh, there were years when I had Big Asks: a spouse when I was single, a child when I married, a new house, a new job. And I begged and promised and bargained to get them. Which is stressful. Who wants to be begging all the time?

It’s good to know that I don’t need to barter good deeds for favors. And besides, so many of my resolutions go unfulfilled anyway.

Nope, this year I’m not looking for much at all, thank goodness. You know, just health, happiness, sustenance. The usual.

Oh, and of course I want the same for my husband and my kids. And my parents, obviously. And his parents, and all our siblings, his and mine. And our friends and neighbors too. No man is an island, after all.

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