Posted by kate on October 06, 2004 at 10:45:18:
Fans of Vanessa's witty and insightful tales of prgenancy and mumhood, will enjoy her latest insight into the broader experience of living diabetes ....
Do you ever feel like the mouse on the wheel; running as fast as you can but frustratingly never reaching the cheese? You know the cheese is right there; you see it, you smell it, you’re heading in the right direction but it still remains just out of reach. You thought the wheel would lead you to the cheese but instead it just leaves you exhausted and discouraged. Guess what little mouse? It’s time to jump off that wheel; there are smarter and possibly less sweatier ways to get your cheese!
No one’s going to argue that living in this century can be challenging – there’s more to know, more to do and more to aspire to. The ‘lifestyle bar’ is high and keeps rising – seemingly anything less than a booming home theatre set up, an iPod and a Top 30 ring tone equals a life distilled. Success and perfection, or at least other peoples’ interpretation of it, imprint on us each day. Is it any wonder we sometimes feel like the mouse on the wheel? As fate would have it, us groovy young thangs with the big D have another ‘piece of cheese’ to chase; the perfect BSL.
The perfect BSL. I feel a bit nauseous as the sentence rolls off my tongue. Not nauseous like sitting on 20.0mmol, more like splashing a hundred bucks on a new outfit then having it come on sale, type of nausea .........................................