How to change a life
There are two beliefs that the common person holds for certain – you can’t change another person and you can travel miles away from your home but you are still who you are wherever you arrive. In O’s magazine this month is a quote that says, “People change for those they love quite often…The relationships that call forth positive change are those that provide a ground of accepting the person…Relationships can illuminate flaws in one’s approach to life by exposing one to other ways of thinking and doing things.”
I know that I left New Orleans in 1990 and reinvented myself in another land far far away. And that I met a man who changed my life. Unfortunately, I threw out the BABY with the bathwater – and I mean that figuratively and literally. I think the best changes are tweaks, not overhauls, because now at 47, I am faced with myself once again, and although I damn well like her, all the rough edges are starting to show again.