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As children, we learn about our bodies.
As teens, we experience the introduction of hormones and our maturing bodies.
As young adults, we marry and start a family with the hopes that
everything we were taught, is exactly as we thought it would be.
Then, after having two, three, four, five, six or more children,
our bodies shift and our attitudes change. I decided that I would
summarize, ever so carefully, some of my observations.
In mid-life, we can do things like that; to observe the world and
to make profound statements. We have just enough experience to
be taking seriously, if only for a moment.
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The Sexual World In Which We Live:
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Rule #1: Can’t talk about it. How did I get here, Mommy?
Rule #2: Don’t ask questions. What is this called, Daddy?
Rule #3: Don’t answer questions. Ah, I don’t know.
Rule #4: Don’t stare at it. That is just plain weird, though!
Rule #5: Don’t even go there. Kinky sex. Swingers. Gay and Lesbian Couples.
Rule #6: What? You’re pregnant. Life happens.
Rule #7: Your reality; live with it. From diapers to taxes, where is sex?
Rule #8: Oh my, here it comes- mid-life crisis. What is this?!
Rule #9: We are constantly changing. Social attitudes and bodies are shifting.
Rule #10: Slow and easy. Accepting reality. You made it to home base.
You understand it all. Does any of this make sense?
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I had come to a realization not so very long ago-for the group of
people in which I am a member: Having a group of children late in
life is delightful. You are older, more mature, financially stable,
smarter, calmer, more patient; all that is good.
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However, where in the instruction book does it say that, as a woman,
having children late in life is delightful and rewarding, but that it is also
so very frightening. Having small children and having one or both
of the parents having a grand slam mid-life crisis right in the middle
of it all; that is sheer terror.
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Where is the instruction book?
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Slightly off topic:
Sometimes, I hang out with my Native Norwegian friends simply to
compare and contrast the differences and the similarities. I have
a Native Norwegian friend who does the same; she studies, comparison
and contrast, the differences between Americans and Norwegians.
She has developed a clear, and sometimes funny perspective on how
Americans think. Academically speaking, Minneapolise writes in a
poignant and painfully honest tone. Throughout her dialogue and
soap box speeches, one comes to understand that there is a lot
of reason and meaning to her writings. Thanks for sharing, Minneapolise.
I am relating to the map of North America that my friend, Minneapolise,
has constructed. I am thinking of the perspective of 9-1-1
from those that live across the Atlantic Ocean and those that consider
America their home. Visit: www.minneapolise.wordpress.com and if you
understand the language, you’ll be laughing so hard that you’ll be
gasping for air or- you will be so mad that any body could say something
bad about America that you’ll go sulking to your room- I know you will.
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My prediction is that the Europeans, especially the Norwegians and
the Swedes, would give you a whole lot to think about. They would
read a little about my perspective and not even blink an eye. In
America, every little mention of sexual behavior is bad, bad, bad.
During the summertime, in America, we wear swimsuits out in public. In
Norway, they wear swimsuits, bras, panties or nothing at all in a public
park in Oslo, Norway. It’s called Frogner Parken or Gustav Vigeland’s
Park. It is my favorite sculpture park in all of the world. I love the
sculptures. I really do.
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Now, Americans would be arrested, jailed and sentenced to life if
they ran around bare naked in a local park, specifically in a town
that was well-populated; a capitol city like St. Paul, Minnesota or
Washington, D.C, or in Central Park in New York, NY.
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From a humorous perspective, one could say that Norwegians and
Swedes just never grew up; they are still running around in their
birthday suits, and like little tykes, they think nothing of it.
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What changed? What changed our way of thinking about our bodies,
our selves? When did the beautiful bodies that God gave us change into
something that is so wrong and so disgusting? And, are Americans so
perfect and so righteous that they can condemn a country that is
quite open, and liberal regarding expressions of public nudity?
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Are Americans so perfect and so righteous that they can think that
they are BETTER THAN the European people? Do you think so?
Ask www.minneapolise.wordpress.com. She will answer.
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