Margaret the Ordinary Part Two
The fictional story of an ordinary woman
Margaret’s Father
Margaret’s father, Simeon, is a retiree. He retired not from an illustrious career but from one that was barely breathing. No, it was not the lack of talent or conscientiousness that ailed him but rather the lack of social skills.
He seemed to have the gift of stepping on the toes of ‘people with power’; Many a time he was thrown into ‘cold storage’ and left there till the forces of neglect pushed him to resign.
Margaret wonders, “Is my father autistic, narcissistic or a combination of both?”
She does not like this line of thinking as it ventured into a realm of pride and presumption, something that her religion forbids.
She is worried that she would inadvertently judge the poor man with inaccurate information and become one of those bloody hands who spilled the blood of martyrs.
Nonetheless, I believe that she was digging on some good ground. If she had dug further, she would have struck gold.
But then again, it is a scary thing to strike gold. One never knows if one is truly strong enough to bear the weight of all that honesty.
