I have two, as I get older, this one becomes more fitting -
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Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
By Jenny Joseph
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
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Basic gist, do what makes you happy, the hell with what anyone else things...
And a passage from The Little Price by Antoine de Saint Exupery that I have in my wallet.
Quote:
"...AND AT NIGHT YOU WILL LOOK UP AT THE STARS. Where I live everything is so small that I cannot show you where my star is to be found. It is better like that. My star will just be one of the stars for you. And so you will love to watch the stars in the heavens...they will be your friends. And besides I am going to make you a present...and he laughed again.
That is my gift said the Prince...
In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing...and so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...you--only you--will have stars that laugh...look for me...I'll be there for you.
And when your sorrow is comforted, he continued, for (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me...and I will be there in the night sky, shining on you...and with you forever, for here stars never die. Your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the stars...but you can say "the stars?...they are a gift...my friend gave them to me to make me laugh.
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