Dear Diary,
The last time I was at home I walked in on a phone conversation mum was having with a family friend that I have never met.
As I waited for mum’s attention I heard her talking about someone – me! She was explaining my more conventional educational background, not the fashion bit, and giving more bland details about me. I was shocked to realise that my plus points were being listed like Arranged Marriage Top Trumps. This was swiftly followed by the feeling of being shocked at my own shock as I am single so what’s the big deal?
When mum got off the phone I did my usual this-is-boring act over her insistence that it was okay to ask someone I didn’t know to find me a husband and that she would never feel relaxed or that she had fulfilled her duty as a mother until…..snore….. I know it’s childish but I told mum a million times I want to concentrate on my company just now as it needs all my attention.
Mum and I ended the conversation with a giggle and her shaking her head at my resistance but I know this scene will happen all over again the next time I go home.
Drop the curtain, actors take a bow.
Bubbly
