over the shoulder wisdom
On the train to work the other morning I was, as usual, standing the entire ride. There was a woman reading some sort of style/fashion magazine, but it was completely celebrity focused. Pictures of Rachel Weisz, Angelina, Natalie Portman etc. adorned the pages. I mindlessly followed along as she flipped pages until she happened on a feature of Cameron Diaz.
Natch, Miss Diaz looked stunning in every sun-kissed photograph. Her fair eyes and platinum locks simply screamed “look at me, I’m a star” in every way possible. But while flipping through the spread, the reader stopped on one of the pages where a giant pull-quote from Miss Diaz caught my eye. (Pardon my paraphrasing)
A lot of people think you are incomplete without a relationship. No. I don’t want to be in a relationship and feel incomplete.
I don’t think I’ve ever read anything so true in the pages of one of a celeb rag. Yet the truth of the statement wasn’t what made me pause. It was, for once, a statement of the way I feel about relationships that pretty much says it all.
From Cameron Diaz. In a fashion rag. How very.
My life is pretty frickin’ complete right now. I have a good job (rocky as the market may be), my work in the theatre is energizing beyond compare, I have a circle of friends who I can laugh and cry with, and the relationship with my family is better and more satisfying than ever.
Where in all that does a relationship fit? I honestly don’t know. And there isn’t really an answer to that question because, like most things, you don’t know you’re missing something until you find it.
Uncanny though. On a crowded train, reading over a strangers shoulder, Cameron Diaz made me think about the great life I’m living.
Miss Diaz, I agree. I agree completely.