Me at 2
Each week I think about what I am going to write about and as the days progress I start to put some words together in my head and they begin to coalesce together into a piece of writing.
Up until last night I was going to write about a phrase I read last week, “I am choosing not to suffer” but that is now for next week or maybe the one after that.
You see, my Dad rang to ask my husband what his picks for the Melbourne Cup are but first he tells me that he saw my business card.
‘So Liska,’ he says, ‘what is a Creative Thinker….what kind of a title is that…….pause……where did you come from?’
This isn’t about my Dad because I know that he’s got my back, always! And I know that we are not alone in parents not necessarily understanding the choices that their children make (me included).
Its about the instinctive response it prompted in me.
Two things at the same time:
- A special moment between you and Mum so somewhere, somehow you two have a stake in this, and
- Where am I going?
Response number 1 is self evident. Enough said.
Response number 2 is about choices.
I am also reading another book (more on that a lot later) that asks the question and to paraphrase it goes something like this ‘why do people wait until something really bad happens before they choose a different way of life?’
So Dad, my business card is about ‘my outside matching my inside’. I am a creative being who likes to ask lots of questions.
When the opportunity presented itself for The Stamp Collective to come to life I had to have a business card and I thought long and hard about what to put on it. I know my final choice might be considered pretentious by some but you know what I don’t mind because that’s their choice to feel that way and it’s my choice is to own my identity publicly.
What choices are you making now that might challenge those closest to you?
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Liska x