This year I found an author I LOVE, Elizabeth Berg, and I am making my way through all of her books. I find her characters highly relatable in that they often think the same way I do about things, which is to say they feel things very strongly. I came across this quote while reading yesterday:
"'I am living in the wrong time,' she said, suddenly. And when he asked her what she meant, she said, 'I am fulfilled by making hamburger patties, by the care of my child. I like the smell of laundry detergent. I like listening to what [my daughter] has to say more than reading the newspaper. I don't want to be a photographer or run for office. I don't want to make a million dollars. I want to read poetry and novels and raise my daughter and make chocolate chip cookies.' And when he said there was nothing wrong with that, she told him he was the only one who thought so."
This really hit home with me. I feel exactly the same way, like I was born in the wrong time. I could not care less about quotas, channel partners, referrals, pinging, closing or circling back. It makes it hard when that is what seems to make the world go round.
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