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Is it just me or can anyone else out there identify with this moment I regularly experience where I am holding forth to the ones I love and I am going on and on, and inside my head I am saying "Shush, just shush now," and yet I cannot stop myself from uttering yet just one more nugget of life-changing wisdom which will utterly transform the understanding of said loved one and I am yet again the saviour of the lost and confused, and goodness, whatever would they all do without me to guide their faltering footsteps?

It is quite the responsibility being me..
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Anonymous said…
I am with you! I, of course, am changing the/their world with my wisdom... aren't I?
Take care, Jo.
Patricia/USA
Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
Jo said…
Patricia, I am absolutely confident that you are changing the world with your wisdom. Maybe we should get together for a cuppa and wisely transform the world in tandem. Next time you are in Tasmania?? xx
Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
simplelife said…
Oh no you are not alone
Cheers Kate
Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
Jo said…
Kate, I am immensely cheered to hear that. Shall we start a club?
Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
Anonymous said…
Yes, please Jo. Or if you are in Florida!
:D
Patricia
Thursday, 12 September, 2019
simplelife said…
a club sounds wonderful, the benefit of my experience club, you're welcome

cheers Kate
Thursday, 12 September, 2019
Anonymous said…
Oh my word, yes. Count me in.

Linda in NZ
Thursday, 12 September, 2019
Jo said…
Ok, there will be a club. It will be called Saviours Anonymous. The motto will be: Did they *ask* for our advice? And we will drink tea/gin and share our wisdom with each other and agree about how wise we are, and get it all off our chests so that we can go back to our families and keep very quiet and let them work out their own lives.
I am very much looking forward to this! Any other suggestions??
Thursday, 12 September, 2019
Anonymous said…
It is so good to laugh. Thank you.
Patricia
Thursday, 12 September, 2019
sustainablemum said…
I am a bit late to this party but yes I do this too. I try so hard to bite my tongue but it doesn't always work!
Thursday, 12 September, 2019
Penelope P. said…
I’m definitely willing to become a founder member of ‘the benefit of my experience club’😊I’m at my best (worst) at school. I’m a supply teacher and am forever finding myself telling other teachers and teaching assistants what is wrong with the system and how fantastic the job was all those years ago when I first started teaching. I can’t shut up even when I see eyes glazing over, despite that voice in my head...
Thursday, 12 September, 2019
Jo said…
Kate, excellent!

Patricia, if you drink enough gin, everything is funny:)

Sustainable Mum, the more the merrier! I hear you about being unable to bite your tongue. The thing is, we have SO MUCH good advice, don't we??

Penelope, if only other people would benefit from our experience, how much better the world would be:) The sooner your colleagues learn this, the better..
Thursday, 12 September, 2019
GretchenJoanna said…
I knew I belonged, as soon as I read the first few lines, but when you named your club Saviours Anonymous, I laughed out loud, because it made me remember the time a friend gave me a strong bit of advice. It was about my feeling responsible for so many things, and feeling sure that I knew what was best. I worried that I couldn't help certain people bring about The Best, or I couldn't love every needy child. She said, "You're not the Saviour!" Her bluntness was the beginning of my understanding of my own limits, of wisdom and power.

Let me know when you have your kickoff meeting and I'll drink a toast with you, even if I have to do it at 3 a.m.
Wednesday, 25 September, 2019
Jo said…
Gretchen Joanna, you are so welcome in our club. Cheers!
Wednesday, 25 September, 2019
Anonymous said…
Oh dear! I just did it with you and the antibiotics! And yes, I regularly do it with my sons. They shhh me but I continue. Lucinda
Wednesday, 02 October, 2019
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