With the Queen’s recent death, there’s been SO much talk about Princess Diana.
I’m not knowledgeable enough to really know all the ins and outs of Diana, Charles, Camilla et al. I’m too young to have know in real-time. And I haven’t done enough studying to truly understand it all after the fact… Which maybe means maybe I shouldn’t talk about it at all haha.
But as people have been talking about it all, one detail that’s stood out to me – which again, i don’t actually know if it’s true or lore at this point – is that Princess Diana realized before her wedding that she didn’t want to get married. But she felt she couldn’t because the ‘tea towels were already printed’. I.e. everything that involved her, all the pomp and circumstance, it had already been done.
But I just really believe we should all learn from that, even if it’s lore, tbh, we should learn from that (because that’s kind of the point of parables and things) – I think we all should keep it with us in our hearts that it’s NEVER too late (as long as we’re still living).
It doesn’t matter if the tea towels are printed.
Of course she had no way of knowing at the time that she’d end up dying from this awful relationship. That’s a pretty severe consequence(!), and she had no way of knowing it’d get that bad.
But stuff can always be replaced. You can’t do things just ’cause the towels are printed.
(And this is largely pointed at myself too, because I can definitely fall into the trap of thinking about what I ‘have’ to do, instead of what I want to do – not always, but sometimes.
And we just never really have to. If it’s that bad, there’s always a better option. (And I’m sure for her, at the time, it might’ve felt like the other option was worse and like it was scary not knowing what might happen to her, should she decide not to marry him. They were both scary options. I’m sure it was an impossible position.
Sometimes all options are VERY hard. and it may not have worked out any better for her, since she was already in so deep.
But yeah, just… the tea towels can’t make our decisions.