Today's quote I was given to work with was "I'm the best thing that ever happened to me" - does that make you think of Gladys Knight and "You're the Best Thing that Ever Happened To Me"? Did me. So I thought we would turn the song on its head. Ready?
"Felicity, or Flick as her best friends knew her, was a petite, pretty girl, one of those who wears spectacles and you think 'gosh, she looks good in those' - you know the kind of young girl I mean. Well, Flick had been going out with her boyfriend Billy for six months now. She was getting a bit tired of the way things had been between them both lately. All the little things that she thought kind of cute at the beginning were starting to get on her nerves now. He didn't wear the kind of clothes she wanted him to wear, the kind of clothing that she knew would make him look much better to her friends. He never used the expensive cologne she had bought him for Christmas, wasn't that keen on using deodorant and he ate too many spicy things. There were other things such as his lack of interest in the things she liked, plus he wasn't that intelligent to be honest.
It was a fine day in June and they had arranged to go to the local zoo. Flick wasn't that keen on zoo's, why did nobody think about the poor animals being fenced off like they were? She knew Billy had a totally different viewpoint to her his idea being that they were safe kept like this whilst out in the wild there were lots of predators ready to kill or harm them. It had been a bit of a non starter visiting the zoo when she was feeling 'off him'. Inevitably the question of whether wild animals were better off in a zoo or not came up and the two of them had an argument.
"I think it is about time we split up" said Flick.
"What" gulped Billy, "over a silly difference in opinion on animals? It's not as if they are like us humans, or had brains."
Flick could feel her blood rising "What do you mean, they have no brains?"
"Well" said Billy a little hesitantly, "I mean they don't have emotions like us."
At that moment they were approaching the giraffe house where one of the giraffes had recently given birth to a little one.
"Can you see the way that mother giraffe is looking after her baby, how she is close by him the whole time in case he falls. His legs are probably still a little weak." said Flick in a rather harsh voice. "I don't think I want to be with you any longer if that is how you feel, especially how you feel about animals. You know how much I love them".
"Yes" said Billy, "and I love you. In fact you're the best thing that ever happened to me."
"Sorry" replied Flick, "I'm the best thing that ever happened to me. Sorry Billy, it's not you."
With that Billy began to cry. Flick felt awful, but she had said it and that is how she had been feeling for a while now. They'd been too young to start a serious relationship and to be honest she wanted to go out with her girlfriends a bit more. Billy did not approve of that. This was for the best. But she couldn't leave him there crying.
"Look Billy," she said, let's go and sit down somewhere a bit more private and have a chat. I'll get us two ice creams and we can talk it over."
With that Billy stopped crying, dried his eyes and off they went for some ice cream and a chat."
The outcome of the chat is up to you and your imagination. I wonder what it will be?
The background was one I had started when I was on a pencil crayon workshop, I'd only done the leaf on the top left so I had to do the others, a couple of years (?) later. All I had learnt had gone out of the window but I managed something. Just don't let Tracey see this. Figures are Dylusions of course, including the giraffe and I am entering this into Jo's challenge at Art Journal Journey which is ''Wonderfully Wild. See you over there!
