Ying and Ying?
‘Even after so many years, you’re all loved up’ a friend once yelled at me. Her accusation resonated for some time. Should I feel guilty? Happy? What prompted her to say such a thing with such contempt? When I asked, she said she could just tell that we got along well and she wanted the same thing. I didn’t know how to answer that. Mr Lucky and I are loved up. We are very different in many ways, and at the same time quite similar. We still are individuals in our own right. And yes, of course it’s not always a given, we work at it. Well, Mr Lucky is truly a patient man. He often waits for me to remove my foot from my mouth, only to shake his head in disbelief as I replace it with the other. He is not perfect either. He shakes his head when I swap feet. That is wrong. Because we arrived in Greece as an already made family as opposed to a growing one (which is what we were in the UK), not many ask how long we’ve been together, or where we met etc....