Interpretation
Posted on | January 12, 2010 | No Comments
My email box has been full for the last few days and several emails have been from people who kinda-sorta know us from seeing us out and about.
Bless your hearts for being either curious or concerned — but please, calm the heck down!
It’s interesting to notice the interpretations that can be drawn from a simple post or two that mention that life in the country isn’t exactly what we had expected (and no, that does NOT mean we hate it here!), that it was more daunting than we had anticipated (and that’s an honest statement of our OWN failure to be realistic!), that a few health issues are creating some reassessment of what to do with our future careers (just letting you know that we might be making some interesting changes), and that we would still like to have a big overseas trip this year (we haven’t seen our overseas relatives for years!). So how in the world did that end up being interpreted as a negative set of statements about life in Australia?
Did I say that I no longer loved it here? Was there even the slightest implication that I don’t LIKE Australia?
I do SO love this place, our friends, the ‘feel’ of it all (in spite of the heat, snakes, bugs and bushfires), and even a long jaunt overseas for awhile will make me miss it. So for those of you who are bombarding me with notes (including some genuine shockers asking me how much I want $$-wise for the lawn tractor or the car!), just knock it off and read what I DID say instead of what you are imagining that I said!
My overseas reading public will be wondering why this post is necessary. Well, it’s because I live in a tiny place — about 800 people — and it’s just like village life anywhere in the world including the village where we used to live in England. A few statements seem to get extrapolated into some extraordinary ‘facts’ that are based on whimsy and not on what was ever actually said.
Ah well…
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