The Magic Diet Pill — Stop Fantasizing and Own Your Reality
Magical elixirs don’t exist! Stop avoiding truths you don’t want to admit. Embrace your desire and live life with determination.
Remember those aptitude tests that we took in high school in the early 1980’s? Mine suggested bartender as a possible career choice. Turns out I’m terrible at making cocktails but I am a very good listener. A strength that comes in handy when socializing with a group of women.
I am not a girly girl. From my thought processes to my decorating style I gravitate toward the masculine. As you can imagine, socializing with a group of women generates a certain level of anxiety for me. Comparable points of view are often scarce and sometimes my approach isn’t quite delicate enough.
Anxiety aside, it can be interesting, sometimes insightful and once in a blue moon I’ll find a kindred spirit. Most of the time, it’s more of a psychology exercise. The honing of my skills as an untrained therapist.
The conversations at these feminine gatherings are predictably about children, grandchildren, husbands, manicures and remembering when they were a thinner version of themselves. Not topics I can relate to since I am childless, have a great husband and can’t remember the last…
