Tonight while at Kitsilano Showboat, Thea & Theo Gian arrived after the first set of performances...
OG: Mam, you missed all the dancing
Thea Gian: What did I miss?
Me: Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, and a contortionist
Thea Gian: Well you can't have everything, (chuckles to herself, then turns away)
I started laughing with her...her timing was perfect. To be honest, she is right, you can't have everything. Despite the humorous moment, a few minutes later it made me realize all the things I had taken for granted today. I felt like such an idiot, but of course I started laughing at myself and shook my head. I find these realizations just as humourous as Thea Gian's comment, its better to just laugh at yourself & learn for tomorrow.
Sitting here writing this, it got me reminiscing of the simple things my Theos, Theas, Popou & YiaYia used to tell me. Even last year , we were sitting around the table at my cousin's wedding, and my cousins started asking where this boyfriend was, that I have been dating for a year. Last minute, he decided not to come because he didn't want to be paraded around my family. When I told everyone at the table, my 3rd cousin bursts out, "he could sit and have a beer with me", but its the simple actions and phrase, that his father did. Like my popou always did, he waved his hand down, as if waving the situation away, he says, "its done, he's done! pffff", then looks at me (raises his eyebrows) and then turns back to the speeches.
He was right the relationship was done.
Earlier this year my friend AK asked her Thea SD, why do Greek women spit. Its so that if another women says anything insulting or with envy, you turn to the side and spit 3 times, I think to spit out their words so it doesn't affect you. Ak asks, "won't they see you?", and Thea interrupts, "who cares!".
My yiayia would always say, "you can stay on the toilet or you can get off the toilet, thats it, you only have 2 choices"
Again simple sentences, that speak so much truth. Why do we make it so complicated? Yeah there are emotions and us females are notorious for over-analyzing/thinking the crap out of situations.Hence this realization is from me over-thinking 1 simple sentence from tonight.
At the end of the day is it worth it? is it worth our time and energy to make it so complicated?
Who knows?! but hopefully one day I can live more like all the wonderful Greeks in my life, and speak more simply too... :)
OG: Mam, you missed all the dancing
Thea Gian: What did I miss?
Me: Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, and a contortionist
Thea Gian: Well you can't have everything, (chuckles to herself, then turns away)
I started laughing with her...her timing was perfect. To be honest, she is right, you can't have everything. Despite the humorous moment, a few minutes later it made me realize all the things I had taken for granted today. I felt like such an idiot, but of course I started laughing at myself and shook my head. I find these realizations just as humourous as Thea Gian's comment, its better to just laugh at yourself & learn for tomorrow.
Sitting here writing this, it got me reminiscing of the simple things my Theos, Theas, Popou & YiaYia used to tell me. Even last year , we were sitting around the table at my cousin's wedding, and my cousins started asking where this boyfriend was, that I have been dating for a year. Last minute, he decided not to come because he didn't want to be paraded around my family. When I told everyone at the table, my 3rd cousin bursts out, "he could sit and have a beer with me", but its the simple actions and phrase, that his father did. Like my popou always did, he waved his hand down, as if waving the situation away, he says, "its done, he's done! pffff", then looks at me (raises his eyebrows) and then turns back to the speeches.
He was right the relationship was done.
Earlier this year my friend AK asked her Thea SD, why do Greek women spit. Its so that if another women says anything insulting or with envy, you turn to the side and spit 3 times, I think to spit out their words so it doesn't affect you. Ak asks, "won't they see you?", and Thea interrupts, "who cares!".
My yiayia would always say, "you can stay on the toilet or you can get off the toilet, thats it, you only have 2 choices"
Again simple sentences, that speak so much truth. Why do we make it so complicated? Yeah there are emotions and us females are notorious for over-analyzing/thinking the crap out of situations.Hence this realization is from me over-thinking 1 simple sentence from tonight.
At the end of the day is it worth it? is it worth our time and energy to make it so complicated?
Who knows?! but hopefully one day I can live more like all the wonderful Greeks in my life, and speak more simply too... :)