02.16.07
Roses
Girl surprised me this week by telling me that she doesn’t like roses. (I mean it’s hard this last week not to run into roses and rose-shaped chocolates.) Quite mystified, I asked her why.
It turned out that she had it all thought out and it wasn’t the smell or anything intrinsic to roses. No, she decided that she didn’t like roses because liking roses meant that you wanted people to tell you that they needed/wanted you. She feels that needing that outside input doesn’t fit her mental image of herself, and so she’s decided that she’s not going to like roses. Other flowers - yes, roses - no.
Steph said,
February 16, 2007 at 1:25 pm
It is fascinating the way she thought this through.
February 20, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Sounds like you have a very thoughtful kid who wants to live and feel intentionally.