Woman covering her face. Do you ever wake up and you know that it is going to be one of those days? Well, I must say I gave that idea quite some thought but decided to show up eventually. By lunchtime, I felt stupid for not following up with the idea. My body was beat and I just wanted to go home, wear my oversized pyjamas and drown myself in a bottle of wine.
As I said, it was one of those days. Well, that ship had sailed so I accepted my fate and began to sluggishly rise from my seat. Well at least I had Kara, her insulting jabs were sure to keep me awake during lunch hour. I mean who needs wine when you have a brutally honest friend to tear your confidence down brick by brick? It was my younger sister Nancy. What followed was a sharp scream that can only be compared to a banshee. What followed was a continuous babble of how her engagement had gone down and the details of her engagement party.
After a while, we ended the call. And I own a yacht in the Bahamas. I mean your younger sister is getting married and you do not even have a man. Your mum and aunts are going to have a field day with this. Well, Kara was on a roll. She was not just breaking my confidence, she was stamping on it and bashing it with a hammer. Kara was right though. My excitement at the news died down.
I mean I was happy for her. She is, after all, my little sister. But the news just served to remind me that I was single at I mean come on! A convent?! Do not get me started on my mother and her army of inquisitive sisters. Do you remember that sweet boy who used to be your friend when you were young? You should……. Now that my sister was getting married, those statements would only get worse.
But why did I care what they thought? I had a great job, a great house, a nice car and a budding side business. I mean who needs a man right? That was the mindset I intended to go to the engagement party with. I was not going to let anyone bring me down. Not my mother, not my aunties. I was proud of where I was in life and nothing was going to make me think otherwise.
