Have you noticed how two faced we can be in this industry, asks Sue Lovell
Second Opinion
Every day, at some point, I see my It’s 45 minutes before I see a parents. Oh my lovely dad, my oldest human, then I pick up my littlest DNA DNA connection. I’m learning to watch connection and we get to watch the the sunsets together with gratitude of sunrise together. We say goodbye to what’s been, rather than hope. the dark, and hello to the day. He’s Every day we say goodbye to the excited for what’s to come, and I’m so ’ve always known it, but I’ve glad I get to share in his day. We get to day, and wait to see what the darkness noticed it a lot more in recent brings. The sunshine is leaving him, see the black fields turned to brilliant months. I don’t know if it’s more some days it’s just dark, but then prevalent in this industry, because white as we count the thousands of swans; we wish the horses in the fields briefly it’s back. Some days he’s joyful, we are more female led, or I’m just a good morning and play a gruesome but others I don’t recognise him, my noticing it more because I interact lovely dad, the stranger. I try not to game of ‘guess the roadkill’. with women more. But either way, mourn what I’m losing, and focus We get home around 8:30 and we it’s true; we are so two faced, and I on what was and what’s left; it just need to remind myself that both faces dance, we sing, we play Twister. Our hurts, a lot. It’s a hard lesson, it’s are blooming beautiful, and so brutal, but there’s always a smile strong, and both deserve to be We can have struggles and somewhere. shown. failings, but can still celebrate the My mum. Her brave face is So I’m showing mine, sharing fearless, always love, she always way more than I should, because successes, and not feel we have to has hope. She leads, I follow, in in a world of incredible women, it’s okay to not be superwoman. hide the downright crappy parts awe. I’ve had to make decisions recently that have left me It’s okay to not be successful broken. I feel I’ve betrayed rather than and perfect in every aspect of life. It’s day is filled with laughter and we protected, and no matter how many educate each other. He educates me okay to be ordinary and average. We times I’m told I’ve done the right thing, on the vital role Octonauts played in can have struggles and failings, but I know in my heart I have failed my can still celebrate the successes, and saving a whale from the volcano, and biggest supporter. I should have done not feel we have to hide the downright reminds me that we need to work together to solve problems. I regularly more, I still can find a way to make this crappy parts. all okay. This really hurts. teach him valuable health and safety On my day off from bridal, I leave And in the middle, I run my lessons. This week’s life lesson was home at 6am and travel an hour business. I welcome my brides through the dark to get to my own Ray that a coat hanger in the mouth of light. These fen roads are brutal, no doesn’t turn into a propeller when you through my doors, and I’m excited for what each one is about to find in a cats eyes or white Iines here. We don’t spin it – it just hurts a lot! It’s a hard dress. Her confidence, her beauty, her lesson we’ve all had to learn, but I have street lights, as we don’t have power. The positivity and the potential, know he’ll find another way to fly. many streets, just tracks in places.
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