So, here is what happened to me in the past week. I have gone to a series of wedding celebrations in another state. It is colder and dry there. I also had to carry my office laptop computer, so I packed our largest travelling bag.
I looked into all the small details of things I should be carrying, even dental floss and Vaseline and rubbing alcohol. I also packed comfy clothes.
Shoes, the black leather ones - my wife reminded me several times; I packed them too. But for some reason it didn't occur to me that I should be wearing two separate suites for two days of the wedding.
They say the black leather shoes looks great on me. But mu legs still hurts after wearing them for two days - two days apart.
I has been like - other people supposed to understand that I would be packing multiple suites with a laptop and all those meds and supplements and nick-nacks in to this large but space-limited travelling bag to travel over 100's of miles. And I was only focusing my comfort and apparently been selfish not to be pleasing to the eyes of other people.
It really does matter only a little bit to me how other people think of me than how comfortable I feel. So my father-in-law was quite-not-amused and quite-not-pleased and quite-vocal about how shameful it would be to introduce me to all those people with the same dress as the previous day.
At the age of 32, I'm still learning the purposes of these kind of celebrations humans gather for. Even "Pride and Prejudice" failed to teach me this kind of interactions do exist.
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