H rang this evening, and before speaking to D he chatted with me for ten minutes or so.
Then later this evening around 10.30 pm, just as I was thinking I should shut down my computer and go to bed, the phone rang. I immediately thought, that's late, I bet it's H, and it was.
He asked if I was still awake, as he had just had another idea for his project and wanted to tell me about it. So I listened to what he said, and made a few murmers and comments.
Then H said, you know, it is seven years ago that I first went to (my country of origin) and it has affected me the most of any counrty I have been to, including the one we live in now. I listened.
Later H was saying that the project he is doing now is the kind of thing he has been interested in for a very long time... and he has been through so many other 'careers' before this.
At that point, I got in that I really admired the way he has turned his hand to so many things in his life, and been good at them, and all self-taught. This is something I admire in my H. He is a pretty clever boy (when he isn't being a bird brain!!! )
I think H was a little taken aback, and he said, You do admire me for that? and I said, yes, I do.
Then H said, it's a pity that none of these things has earned me any money. And I pointed out that hundreds of great artists through the ages had not made much money through their work/art, many had to work at other things to earn their daily crust. I said a surprising number of folk who worked in so many 'creative' professions were in exactly the same predicament.
We talked maybe 20 mintues, then H said he had to go to sleep, but he thanked me for listening to him and said, good night!
Livnlearn
"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates
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