Life is a series of lessons, exhaustingly so. When is enough really enough? We grow, we learn, we grow some more, we come from bad situations and bad relationships, and it’s all on repeat. Why?
How much does society really dictate our existence? We know our parents wanted us to be rocket scientists, but 100 years ago it was perfectly great to be a good wife and mother. Why is that?
I would love to live in the very early 1900s or even before when you “awaited a telegram“ from your suitor. Once married, was life really any different? Barr having dinner on the table by 5 pm and the kids to bed by 19:00 so that you could play cards or pour him his 5th whiskey whilst you cleaned the kitchen?
Back in my “Anne of Green Gables“ days, I longed to live a life of picking fruit and making a pie to sit by the window to welcome my hard-working man. However, did these women ever think, “There’s more“? Considering women took over the working world during the war and invented windscreen wipers along with DNA profiling, did they ever wonder, what now? after darning the socks and starching collars?
First-class surgeon Dr. James Barry (a woman) performed the first successful caesarean in 1826. Posing as a man.
Jeanne Villepreux-Power, the founder of marine life science, did they want her to stay home and clean the house as was expected of a near spinster?
Who knows if Margaret E. Knight was ever recognized for our eggs not falling out of paper bags?
The very first successful caesarean was performed by a woman, in South Africa, dressed as a man, in 1815, James Miranda Barry, thanks to oppression, who knows why. The point being; had women or anyone been free to be what they had wanted to be, what would they have achieved?
This is why I encourage you to follow your dreams with abandon.
