Aging with Grace

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

C.S. Lewis

This photo I took at Versailles is one of the few images I have of royalty. Harry and Meghan think they have it rough, it could be worse. Queen Marie was married to King Louis XV and living with him was no picnic. After I came across the photo I went down the rabbit hole of figuring out exactly who she was. I thought if I was going to use a portrait of her, I should at least know her name.

This post on royalty, as often is the case, happened in a round about way. I was emailing my friend, Barb, https://inbarbsworld.com about finding an editing program that is compatible with Word Press. I mentioned that I am a terrible editor because I automatically see what should be there instead of what is there. When I thought about my editing problem it occurred to me that not seeing things as they are can be a problem in many areas of life.

I have been loosely following the saga of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. It’s hard to miss with all the press it has been getting. At first glance, it seemed to me that Meghan might have instigated much of the ongoing drama. I wasn’t entirely sure that was fair, so I watched the Netflix Documentary series about the couple. I also read two books, Spare by Prince Harry and Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. In the interest of honesty, I doubt that I would have read either book, if they hadn’t been available as ebooks through the library. Sadly, I wasn’t interested enough to actually buy the books.

So, here’s my big revelation, I have no clue what really happened with Harry, Meghan and their interaction with the rest of the royal family. That brings me back full circle to not always seeing things as they are, but as we think they should be. I believe there is a fair amount of that going on in their story. Does it matter? Not to me. What concerns me more is that I don’t let my selective eye in editing bleed over into other areas of my life. In editing and life I want to remember to take off my rose colored glasses and look through clear lens.