This challenge is produced by GirlieOnTheEdge with the following simple rules:
Write 6 Sentences. No more. No less.
Use the current week’s prompt word – CONNECTION
Click here to hear the author read his words:
Being Different
I attended 7 different schools, in 3 countries, in 2 languages, so I was always the odd kid, the outsider.
I am a Scot and so, by default, an engineer, so when I left Glasgow University and started work it was, almost inevitably given the technological revolution, in software development, a field renowned for its job-hopping practitioners.
I married and had a family, but that scarcely curbed my nomadic tendencies; I worked for significant periods in 7 European countries, including commuting for 2 years to Milan from the French side of the border at Geneva.
Eventually, when our children spread their wings, my wonderful, patient, but long-suffering wife felt the need to settle down, and I moved on.
So now, in the nautical twilight of my life, I live once again in a foreign land, with the handful of people whom I love scattered far across the globe.
As the marvellous Don MacLean says, You know I’ve heard about people like me, but I never made the connection…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJmhD1M12Hw
Well done six. I could feel the emotions between the words.
Thank you, Lisa, very kind
The end sentence sums it up. It was great to hear the story read out too.
Thank you, Cassa, both for your visit and for taking the time to listen too.
Your kind words are much appreciated.
And ‘Empty Chair’is one of my favourite songs with emotive lyrics.
Ah, did you see that I linked it below on another comment?
It is painfully beautiful, I agree.
So you’re a man of all countries, and all times? Both bitter and sweet, like the song (One of many in a truly great album!).
Laughing.
I write fiction, Liz!
Yes, and the superb title track is about my fifth favourite!
Well done! It’s all fiction, it’s all true…that’s never the point, is it? 🌞
It seems like a life spent making disconnections with “the handful of people whom I love scattered far across the globe”.
Interesting observation, Frank, but I don’t think we are ever disconnected from the people – or places – that we love.
It is beautiful, and I like the recording of you reading the story aloud.
Thank you, Romi, I do appreciate when a reader takes the time to be a listener too.
A sad and sweet story of a life.
Thanks, Mimi
There’s more than one way to interpret ‘long-suffering wife felt the need to settle down, and I moved on.’ 😉 As for career choices in Scotland, you could always have become a comedian or Sean Connery. 🙂 Interesting life indeed.
I am happy for the reader to interpret however they choose, Doug.
As for you other rather limited suggestions, I am neither funny nor handsome enough.
P.S. What a beautiful song, “Crossroads”. Thanks!
From Don MacLean’s superb American Pie album.
If you don’t have time to listen to the full set, here is another small delight:
A beautiful “telling” C. E. How amazing to have traveled and lived in different parts of the world IRL. Not the same of course, but thanks to technology, we’ve all the opportunity to do a bit of travelling, if only in the virtual world 🙂
Thank you, Denise, glad it worked for you.
It is amazing how some people need to stay planted in one spot and others need to spread their wings and fly.
We are all different, and ‘Vive la difference!’
The final line of this wonderful Six makes it especially powerful. I won’t say poignant as I don’t sense too much regret or remorse for this rich and varied life. It seems you’re just one of those people.
Thank you, D.
I don’t say ‘Je ne regrette rien’, but we are who we are…
You are truly a citizen of the world. The rest of us, spread across the globe, are virtual neighbours 🙂
Or perhaps just a nomad, Chris?
A great Six about an adventure filled journey!
Glad you enjoyed, Susan
Really good
Thank you, sir
this virtual world, surely it is a new place… it’s a place where we tell our stories to others (friendships/relationships) and the responsibility to believe/agree/disagree is left to each of us as individuals… and so, other than the capacity to borrow five dollar, it has a lot going for it in comparison to the old world
enjoyable Six
I write fiction, sir, I don’t ask anyone to believe.
Glad you enjoyed.
Merci pour ses moments de vie.
Superbe! ❣
Mais personne n’est mort!
😂😂😂😂
That’s simply beautiful. Simply human.
I’m a simple guy, Jenne…