As a survivor
of domestic violence I was raised in a rough home with rough words and rougher
people. I played basketball and lifted weights as some feeble attempt to
be strong and not be feel worthless. As an athlete you learn to walk hard
move hard and make yourself large. So you can imagine as a jock and latchkey
kid, what a Jane Austen novel would represent to me.
I
inherited the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice and put it in on a day
NOTHING looked good in my VCR collection. I put it on and was whisked away to
soft spoken women wrapped in floral words and gentle men. It woke in me
the longing for something more. More than just the wrong side of the rainbow.
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| Jasmine Kyle |
I craved
tea, gentle conversations, gardens and the never ending pursuit of
good company. As a child I would look at my mother and say "There
has to be something more than this" and here it was waltzing away on my
television.
So you ask me
what my life would be like with out Jane Austen? I would still be on the
other side of the rainbow locked in a gray box hardening my self for a world
that didn't have to be that way.
2 comments:
Jane Austen changed sooo many lives :) Mine included!!!!
I'm pleased to hear that Jane Austen has turn your life around, Jasmine.
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