We are in the car, going to pick up chinese for dinner. Food that is. Liv was lamenting her sore limbs as she has been spending hours a day outside working on her basketball skills. Bing asked her why she was going at it so hard.
LIV: Well, first of all, I am the WORST player on the team at school. No lie. There is NO ONE worse than me.
MARIA: (Smiling because she is just saintly) Oh, honey, I'm sure that's not so.
LIV: Believe it. It's a fact. But, that will change.
BING: Honey, it's good that you are practicing but don't overdo, okay?
LIV: I'm not stopping until I am the best. I want to leave everyone else in the dust. Don't you see? I can't STAND not being if not the best, then the almost best.
BING: (Wryly, shaking her head) Well, now. That apple didn't fall far from the tree, did it?
MARIA: WHAT? I'm not competitive!
Bing and Liv both laugh.
MARIA: I'm NOT! I just like to be...okay. I like to be the best. Oh, goody gum drops. Here we are! Everyone out! I bet my fortune cookie will be the most interesting!
Bing and Liv share a look. Shake their heads. Laugh and hug before they go in.
WHAT????
7 comments:
I don't see the problem.
;)
When will Liv realize that she is just a mini version of you? Most of us don't realize that kind of thing until around 30....
arhhh. the secret lanhuage of knowing glances! x
She sounds like a great kid : )
Oh, me too. Me, too. I'm not at all competitive, I just prefer to be the best -- everything. I think the logical fallacy we are embracing is that since we do not begrudge other people their accomplishments and are never mean, (well, almost never,) we are not competitive. What do YOU think, Maria? It isn't easy being green, is it?
It's all in what you choose to be best at. My brothers were very competitive athletically, so I stayed away from that. I didn't want to compete with them. At university, I chose a field of study that no one in my family had already explored. I am the best biologist in the family!
But, competitive? Oh, no!
most excellent slice of life moment. :-)
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