The Opportunity Missed

The Opportunity Missed

As the story goes, in The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Ransome lost everything they had in their apartment during a burglary while they were out. Several events took place before everything returned to normal. Was this a good thing?

As the author writes,

“These discreet (and discrete) epiphanies apart, life after they had recovered their possessions went on much the same as it had before they lost them. Sometimes, though, lying there on the bed or waiting to get up in the morning, Mrs Ransome would get depressed. She felt she had missed the bus. She found it hard to say what bus it was or where it was headed.  Prior to the visit to Aylesbury and the return of the things she had, she thought. She persuaded herself that the burglary had been an opportunity. Each day brings a crop of small adventures. A visit from Dusty, a walk down to Mr Anwar’s, a trip up the Edgware Road. Now re-ensconced among her possessions Mrs Ransome feared that her diversions were at an end. Life had returned to normal, however, it was a normal she no longer relished or was contented with.”

Would you be able to live without any of your possessions? Would letting go give you more time to do the things you love, with the people you love? Certainly, something to think about.

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