Uuden vuoden lainaus (don’t let them waste your time)

You’ve led a life unthinkable to most of the generations of women and men who birthed you to freedoms and riches unimaginable to them (Well, this was true of almost everyone).

You’ve been lucky.
You’ve been blessed.
You’ve been educated, more than you understand.
Really? Eve laughed.
Amber ignored her and continued:
You’ve always had a safe place to sleep and good things to eat, all your life.

So what is it that you could possibly want to know about yourself?

And what is it they’d ask you, what do you think they’d want to know, if they were here tonight, all those women and men and women and men and women and men that it took simply to culminate in the making of you, the birth of you, that day, squealing and furious and covered all over with your mother’s blood?

Ali Smith 2005: The Accidental