Responsibility

What do you want to do when you grow up ?

The time when you, overnight, are different, a fully formed adult, able to take care of yourself, be responsible for your day to day affairs and choices.

Are you still expecting to grow up? Or do you feel grown?

Taking a few moments and a few steps away from the main road into a pretty enclave, I took a stroll down Pavilion Place, on a freezing night where I alone was in the street. A miniscule exploration. It looked like a museum installation of ‘folk life’ but about how the well to do people lived. The road as an old fashioned shopping place, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. Seeing where they bought their upmarket cheese, stacked monumentally , their meat, their stationary, where they lived, where they socialised as they went about their errands.

And this wander down the street taught me that there are people who know how to do things well, who work hard, who make ideas happen.. as I peered into the deserted shop windows, at the stylish shop displays, I liked what I saw. It kindled a desire in me to strive for the same : Quality, style, simplicity. To be responsible.

And also the realisation that I have limited myself to fitting in to a paradigm, a life contained by others expectations, or is it just my own expectation with the brakes on ?

What do I want to do when I grow up ?

What do you want to do when you grow up ?

This is Day 10 of my writing experiment, I hope this finds you well and you enjoy reading my words.