Which Army Wife Are You?
"Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits." ~Thomas Hardy
I had an acquaintance who knows little about the military ask me a question the other day. We were at a meeting at the school and about to start when she approached me with a face full of wonder.
"I've been thinking about you a lot lately, do you watch that show Army Wives?" she asked. When I answered that I did, she continued, " I have to ask, I have an idea, but I want to know which one you are most like?"
I have to admit, I'm a big fan of the show. There are scenes in every episode that I have experienced to some degree and it is eerie at times how the feelings for it all come washing back. There are times when I wonder how they put scenarios on there without asking my permission, it feels that personal.
I answered my friend with something a little like this ~
I could never pretend to be Joan, I don't wear the uniform and I cannot imagine what it is like to be both a military member and a wife and mother. I have dear friends who have done this and I hold them in the highest esteem. If everything in my life is in balance, I embrace the days like Roxy does. I'd like to live a little more like Roxy with energy and spunk and fire. I'm a lot of Pamela, the type of person who will champion the cause of the families in the military. She says things the way I think them but I'm not as bold to publish them that way. Pamela calls things as she sees them and she is a woman of action. I can relate to Denise, especially wanting to pave her own way. It is easy to get overwhelmed by the culture of the military and being a military wife. She lost herself to being the wife of a Soldier and remembered after awhile that there was more to who she was. I've been there too. I've been told I'm Claudia Joy. I can only hope to have some of her great traits. Claudia Joy has grace and wisdom. Claudia Joy is calm and chooses her battles. Claudia Joy loves her husband and family and friends beyond measure.
The truth is they are characters on a tv show that have been based on real people. Their characters are appealing to us because we can watch them navigate the world we live in. For some who don't live this military life, it's a window in. It's a representation of things that might happen in a world they cannot imagine.
All military families are a window in to this different world. I'm so glad my friend asked me who I was. It gave me an opportunity to be a real face of the military family to someone who lives so far away from it.
I had an acquaintance who knows little about the military ask me a question the other day. We were at a meeting at the school and about to start when she approached me with a face full of wonder.
"I've been thinking about you a lot lately, do you watch that show Army Wives?" she asked. When I answered that I did, she continued, " I have to ask, I have an idea, but I want to know which one you are most like?"
I have to admit, I'm a big fan of the show. There are scenes in every episode that I have experienced to some degree and it is eerie at times how the feelings for it all come washing back. There are times when I wonder how they put scenarios on there without asking my permission, it feels that personal.
I answered my friend with something a little like this ~
I could never pretend to be Joan, I don't wear the uniform and I cannot imagine what it is like to be both a military member and a wife and mother. I have dear friends who have done this and I hold them in the highest esteem. If everything in my life is in balance, I embrace the days like Roxy does. I'd like to live a little more like Roxy with energy and spunk and fire. I'm a lot of Pamela, the type of person who will champion the cause of the families in the military. She says things the way I think them but I'm not as bold to publish them that way. Pamela calls things as she sees them and she is a woman of action. I can relate to Denise, especially wanting to pave her own way. It is easy to get overwhelmed by the culture of the military and being a military wife. She lost herself to being the wife of a Soldier and remembered after awhile that there was more to who she was. I've been there too. I've been told I'm Claudia Joy. I can only hope to have some of her great traits. Claudia Joy has grace and wisdom. Claudia Joy is calm and chooses her battles. Claudia Joy loves her husband and family and friends beyond measure.
The truth is they are characters on a tv show that have been based on real people. Their characters are appealing to us because we can watch them navigate the world we live in. For some who don't live this military life, it's a window in. It's a representation of things that might happen in a world they cannot imagine.
All military families are a window in to this different world. I'm so glad my friend asked me who I was. It gave me an opportunity to be a real face of the military family to someone who lives so far away from it.
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