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Maybe You’re a Badass and Don’t Know It
Think about that for a minute
“Your family always fascinated me. It was all so female and mysterious and badass,” an old high school pal responded to one of my comments on Facebook.
WTH?
Badass? In high school? Me?
It stopped me cold. Whatever made her think that?
Yes, I get the female comment. My mother was a widow, her sister (who was divorced), and I made up the household. Check: Female.
Mysterious? I guess it seemed that way. My mother was a retail executive when most women were homemakers, secretaries, store clerks, nurses, or teachers. No other mother in the entire high school was an executive anywhere. We didn’t mingle much with other families in the school since my mother put in long hours at work and took work home with her. Check: Mysterious — maybe.
But badass? Me?
Can someone be a badass in others’ eyes and not in their own?
What is a “badass”?
“Over time, the term has instead come to mean strong, confident and bold … one who knows their own mind, does what they want. A person whose attitudes, behavior and/or appearance are admirable.” Julie Cortés
