A few words to my single female friends, their cats, and their dogs.
I understand you a little — you were lied to and you believed it..
I understand, because I was lied to as well, and like you, I believed.
In that story about self-fulfillment, freedom of choice, and freedom from consequences...
The package also included faith in renting, the joy of travel, seeing the world and meeting people.
Today you are 40-plus, without a family or at least without children, at work with the hot breath of the next generation already on your neck, growing complexes about your increasing invisibility, and an inability to accept the passage of time.
This was not how it was supposed to be, and certainly not this fast!! Do you feel used?
...Well, obviously — because when it was time to change the government: to scream, to paint lightning bolts on churches, and to organize black marches — you were there... and today?
Today they tell you: it is a good time to come back to reality and maybe have a child after all.
Except there is no one left to have one with and nowhere to do it — and above all, the right time for it has simply passed.
...because over the years the money you earned went toward rent payments, life coaching, yoga, and soy lattes at Starbucks.
Today the emptiness and unfulfillment of the women of the transformation generation is best seen by Gazeta Wyborcza — the very same paper that just a few years ago was effectively painting in dark colors the consequences of following the scripts of our grandmothers and mothers.
The revolution is already over — they always end this way...
