Advice from her grandmother gave Amy Remeikis a rulebook for how to approach things which at first seem overwhelming
In this series, Guardian writers share the best advice they’\ ve ever received and how it has affected their lives sinceComposite: Gary Jones/Getty imagesComposite: Gary Jones/Getty imagesMy oma was not a woman prone to emotional outbursts. Good news. Bad news. It was all handled the same.
She was never angry in English. That was the language for her grandchildren. But she would be furious in Lithuanian, the tongue she shared with my father. Incandescent with rage in Russian. Pragmatic in German. Whimsical in Italian. But her face never changed. Only her cadence. “Bah,” she would declare, with a swish of her hand which held her cigarette. Oma could make that cigarette say anything.
Oma had to rebuild her life time and time and time again – as a child, as a daughter and sister, as a young woman, as a mother, as a wife, as a businesswoman, an Australian and then as an oma. She lost her name, her position, her path. And yet, after a sip of brandy, an inhale from her cigarette, she’d pull her shoulders back and move forward.I asked her once, how she did it. Life to me always seemed so much all of the time. I was overwhelmed by its vastness, by the sheer enormity of it all.
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