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There was a moment between
Childhood and
Being almost
Grown up,
Where she knew that she would
Very soon be
Quite possibly
All tied up.
With chores and duties
Work and house,
Strung like eyes
On knitting needles,
In a knot of adult
Life.
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: Knot
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I relate to this so much, for better or for worse! I really like the imagery in “strung like eyes/on knitting needles”!
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hi Evan, So glad you liked it and that you can relate to the imagery! 🙂 Thanks for this great comment! 🙂
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It sounds very sad to me–the girls who go right from childhood to marriage and having their own children.
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Yes, too many do, don’t they? And then, there is also a more subtle reality of figuring out that once you ‘adult’ you are to remain an adult for the rest of your life (whatever THAT means … 😉 )
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Very true.
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🙂 That’s why I refused to grow up. I figure it is a line I’m not willing to cross … 😉
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I think all human beings need a few years of freedom before tying the knots.
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Amen to that!
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I used to be knitter, haven’t done any for a while, and I identify with your metaphor quadrille, Na’ma – ‘knitting needles In a knot of adult life’.
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Thank you! I knit, though I hadn’t for a time, either. … and I do love the tenuous reality that knitting affords – it can hold things together but it can unravel oh-so-fast, too … let alone if you ‘drop’ a stitch … 😉
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Like looking at a storm approaching over perfect blue water. A “knot of adult life” is a great way of putting it.
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Ah, thank you! Indeed, it can be a bit of a knot, can’t it? 😉
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I like your use of knitting and the realization of how much life gets knotted up quickly. Enjoyed.
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Thank you! Yes, it sure does, doesn’t it? And so often knitting does, too, especially in younger fingers … 🙂
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Unendingly increasing complexity, well captured here. Awesome writ.
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Thank you, Ron! 🙂 Here’s to the increasing complexities of being a (supposed) grown up … 😉
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This business of being an adult is wearisome, is it knot?!
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It sure can be! 🙂
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The knitting needles was such a unique metaphor. I hate the fact that we are expected to be completely one of the other but I do recall that limbo stage where expectations began to surmount. I refuse to be completely adult!
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Ah, Mish, you and me both! I don’t believe I ever got “The Adult Manual” and so I’ve been winging it all along, and I figure there’s no need to adult beyond the minimum necessary … 😉 And … nor is it helpful to leave ALL childhood behind. Too much good stuff in youth to give up for naught! 🙂 Welcome to the CARC (Complete Adult Refusers Club) 😀
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Love this. So many expectations and responsibilities, it can feel overwhelming when thrown into it or even expecting it on its own. You communicate those feelings well; they’re very evocative. Beautifully entwined and written!
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Thank you, Lucy! Being human is darn complicated … all those threads looking nice and tidy on one side and oh-so-messy on the other side of the tapestry … (Yeah, I know, I mix metaphors, but I refuse to grow up fully, so I’m ‘allowed’ to … 😉 ) THANK YOU!
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Excellent. Adult life is a knot that slowly tightens more every year. 😉
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Yes … but some of us are dropping a stitch here and there to loosen up some of the knotting … 😉 so we can make a run for it … LOL (sorry, having WAY too much fun with this concept!)
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🤣 Fun is good!
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🙂 Yep! It IS!
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Adult life is yet so coveted, because it offers choices of a pattern.
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Ah, that’s true for many, indeed. Not for all, but for many. Here’s to charting our own course, to some degree or other, as adults. Especially important for those who did not get to chart theirs – or even entertain it – as children.
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Realising it… maybe she can focus on extending the child part? That is the way of life isn’t it? Love the way you wrote this, Na’ama.
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Yep, me agree. 🙂 And I think that sometimes, also, in the black-and-white view of youngsters, the move can seem starker than it ought to be … For there’s proof (ahem …) that some adults (ahem … ahem …) do not quite give up childhood or aspects of it … decades into adulthood … So there’s that, eh? 😉
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Oh, for sure. And I won’t point fingers but let us just say, I know of what you speak 😉
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Yep, I think you probably know what direction to look … 😉 (South, for sure … but also including some reflective surfaces …) 😉
Your NYNF
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Oh, I would never assume…
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LOL Sure … yeah … aha … hmm … 😉
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Innocent! I am innocent!
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I hear ya … 😉
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That moment before ‘shades of the prison house’ close in: so sad and yet so real for many!
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What a poignant comparison, Ingrid! Thank you for that. And …. yes, so sad so real for so many, eh? Hopefully it won’t be quite as stark as she believes it to projected to be …
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Love this
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🙂 Yay! 🙂
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