Scott contacted me yesterday. For newbies around here, I met Scott when I was 15 years old. I dated him on and off for 17 years and have had various interactions (and periods of feuding) post that time. I don’t think about this much, because for me, out of sight equals out of mind. But when I wrote him back to tell him how things were going, the depth of the connection is impossible to deny.
For one thing, I had to tell him that my mother had died. Scott is a Cancer and he and my mother were quite close. Outside of immediate family, my mother only became close to two people in her life. One was her cousin, whom she grew up with and the other was, Scott. My mother was a double Aquarius and Scott has an Aquarius Moon and they just hit it off.
I knew Scott’s mother as well. I met, Scott, while working underage in his mother’s bar and I’ve just sort of always been the underclass in this situation. I don’t mind this at all. It’s irrelevant to me, but interesting, because the pattern has persisted for 35 years and I am sure it will continue to persist for 45 years and 55 years and 65 years if we live that long.
Scott is in my book. He sounds like this:
“It’s the little people who have to stick their necks out and get things done.” he explained.
“I’m a little people?”
“Well, yes, Elsie! Yes, you are.”
::laughs:: I was not insulted by that. I thought it was funny and educational, and true.
In whatever case, Scott said his mother was still alive. We’ve been drawing straws all our lives and mine is always the short one. I think this is funny and educational as well. Check in every few years and make sure the earth has not tipped on it’s axis or anything.
17 Responses to ““I’m a little people?””
Hi Elsa, I wonder about that drawing the short stick every time. I have had a strange reversal or two in my life in the past five years with typical dynamics becoming atypical, as if I have crossed over from a certain place to a new one. I’d ordinarily imagine something like that would entail a death and rebirth, but apparently not. It can happen midstream in a lifetime.
Smiles….I have a Scott. 34 years in and while nothing will ever come of it, he will always check in when I least expect it. Mine is always the short straw too. Doesn’t bother me either.
I think it’s these kind of people (the little people) really make the world go around. As for the people like Scott, they make it’s going around all the better (at least in my life) 
Angie
It’s his view of me. He acts accordingly, like buying me computers over the years.
When we were young, he loaned me this little tv so I could see his aunt on the Phil Donahue show. I was greatly entertained by his aunt and I wanted to see this soooo bad.
So he loaned me this tv, because I didn’t have one and a few days after the show aired, he came and picked up the TV.
Well apparently his family told him he was an asshole for doing this. They had 5 TVs or something and I was really, really poor. But I grew up without a tv so it was nothing to me. I was completely happy getting to see Phil Donahue, and new nothing about this until 24 years later when he started sending me computers, lol.
I told him this was not necessary, but he felt it was and I guess he’d know.
I was happy to have the computers, that’s for sure. And in hindsight, I can see his family’s point back then.
On the other hand, I am glad I’m not seen as a charity case. It is a little bewildering because I don’t come across as oppressed. I am as smart as the rich person, often smarter and it’s easy to forget you’re dealing with a gap like this, when you’re talking to me. Another reason this happens is I don’t care how rich you are. It’s irrelevant to me, I care if you are interesting and he always was.
Maybe that’s the whole thing right there. He’s interesting, I am interesting, who cares about money and televisions? Maybe it was his family’s lack of appreciation or understanding of me, they felt I should have a TV. Scott would be more likely to know that what I wanted was to watch the show. I never said, I wanted a TV! If I would have, he may have responded.
I still don’t want a tv! I mean I have one and watch it, but if you come take it from me, I am not going to care. Left alone, I can easily go a year or two without turning it on so what the hell?
TVs are great for the old, like me – people who don’t go out much any more. When I was younger I never had one – not til I was in my fifties. Even then, I hardly watched until the last few years, in my sixties.
Scott no doubt understood you were living your life: that was what mattered to you (and still does)
I’m no longer living my life, so far as the outside world is concerned at least, so I value my television (and have time to watch it)
I have a few friends like Scott: we hardly ever get in touch but when we do, it’s like just plugging back in to something so familiar, it requires no thought or caution. The connection just ‘is’
lol, I have wondered when he was going to pop up again.
I don’t care how rich people are either and am SO GLAD I was raised like this. My parents have never gave a flying fuck about the Jones’s and that seems to be a rarity these days.
I have a Scott, too. he’s my bf now, again, for the 3rd time lol
I want to be able to feed my family. What others are doing with their money matters so little to me. When my Step-dad was dying we did get to talk. He said do what makes you happy all the way to your soul. If you can do something that you love and value it will never feel like work. You may not make the same money but what you get in peace and happiness will take you so much farther. He passed on my birthday. I quit my job 6 weeks later. Finding something to do that I love have been a journey but a good one. I do not make near what I did. So what. We do fine. What we have gained with me being closer to home and lighter in spirit doesn’t come with a price tag. I wasn’t raised with money. In fact just the opposite. My parents had very little. I do want to pay the bills…but I have no interest in the rest of it. I am trying to live my life …..some of the happiest times I had with my kids were when we had the least money. We found things to do with each other… board games, cards, the park…. it was the best time.
I have one, the Original Pisces. Such a dear creature. Just heard from him, for my birthday.
He’s always there for the big stuff. I’d be weirded out by our connection, but it’s too natural and dependable!
Elsa, I’ll probably be the only one who will ask this (and in doing so totally disrupt the depth of the message(s) you are trying to convey), but I don’t quite understand what you mean by being the little person, or having the short straw when comparing yours with others. Is it the luck? The wealth? The respect, etc (or the lack thereof) to which you are referring?
I do get (and agree with) what you said in your comment about smarts, being interesting as outweighing material wealth though .
debdeb, knowing the context in which he made the remark might help.
I was setting out to do something risky, but very important. I wanted to get help from someone with the power the help me – I was a teenager. The person in power did not want to help me, though they agreed with what I was doing. This was because they did not want to stick their neck out, and risk there position. I had no position so the important thing had to be done by me – a person with no status of any kind. So that’s a little person…and I do think he was right in all ways, the day he said that.
Personally, I thought the thing so important, I was glad to be me (little), because from my perspective, the person with the status was locked in. I still feel this way today.
I don’t think I have a Scott. Wait a minute, maybe I’m the Scott? LOL. No I don’t think so…
But I can really relate to this Elsa, when you said this above:
“I am as smart as the rich person, often smarter and it’s easy to forget you’re dealing with a gap like this, when you’re talking to me. Another reason this happens is I don’t care how rich you are. It’s irrelevant to me, I care if you are interesting and he always was. ”
More important for people to be interesting than rich, completely agree
Hi Elsa, hmm, the context makes me understand it a bit better. thanks .
I have a Venus/Pluto connection w/ my “Scott”…I can relate.
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Elsa, I absolutely admire your ability to draw a corollary between real-life experiences and planetary placements. What I mean by that is it (astrology) can look so pretty and tidy on paper but the reality can manifest in different ways. Thank you for continuing to draw upon your life experiences and encounters to make it “relatable” to the rest of us.