Monday, December 8, 2008

Forasteira Having it all


This article is about having it all. This is and has always been a good subject for many fashion magazines. Back in the early ‘80s there was a lady by the name of Helen Gurley Brown who was the Editor of Cosmopolitan, 1965-97. http://www.nndb.com/people/889/000022823/. She was also the author of “Having it All” which was published in 1982. According to Brown, the necessities for a happy life are success at work and she says, of course, love. The main idea is that women can work full time, have a family and take care of a house and be successful at everything.
This writer Glittah, http://thaismendes.blogspot.com/2008/09/having-it-all.html from London, United Kingdom feels that this is a myth. She, herself, has too many interests and not enough occupations. I can speak for myself and some of my friends that as much as we might want to be a success at everything, there are only so many hours in a day and sometimes it is just not feasible to be great in everything. My experience with working full time and going to school has been if nothing else a tremendous challenge. The late nights doing homework, the early mornings trying to get to the gym and then get to work and come home and get dinner and go to sleep, only to start all over again tomorrow. There are always things on our to-do list that never get done. They get moved over to tomorrow’s date in hopes that we can get it done then. Sometimes it works and sometimes it gets pushed yet another day away. And the result is a very frustrated woman with a long to do list. We should try and make the best of today, get done what we can, but still remember to enjoy life because tomorrow is in fact another day.

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