I Thought You Were Joking, But Yes Cackled Is The Word. At One Point I Thought Someone Might Run Into

I thought you were joking, but yes cackled is the word. At one point I thought someone might run into my room to see what's wrong.

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Random writing thought: the best stories are often the ones that only you could have written — but also the ones that you could only write at this one moment.

I couldn't write All the Birds in the Sky from scratch now if I tried. But the me of 2013 couldn't have written The Prodigal Mother either.

In the absolute highlight of my week, I was talking to my (very sheltered) grandma (Lived in a village of a thousand people all her life in an absolutely orthodox family, has trouble with the concepts of multiple countries and time zones, absolutely unaware of a thing such as homosexuality)

I told her that these days even two women or two men can get married. And then if they want children, they can adopt. And she's like oh I haven't heard of that, is this more of a thing in foreign countries ( we live in India). I explained yeah, but there are people in India who do it too.

She pondered a bit about, yeah they can't have biological children (didn't want to go into the whole surrogacy sperm donation thing), but adoptions great! A child gets parents and parents get a child!

Then for the part I was absolutely not prepared for, she proceeded to ask me about the sex. Keep in mind this is an 80 year old woman who reads scriptures and mythological stories all day.

The way she asked was also amazing, because we don't share the vocabulary for sex, or lust, or sensual desire. She tells me a story about Diti and how she really wanted her husband Kashyap one fine evening and Kashyap kept saying no "because it's evening time and the gods will curse us" (amazing reason to not have sex Kashyap, 10/10, gonna use this when I'm not in the mood next time)

So my Grandma says, what do these two married women do if they feel like that. And I am speechless. I did not expect that from my sweet grandma. And idk what to say. So I tell her, well they get married when they're in love with each other (arranged marriage is the norm here). She's like, yeah ofc and looks at me like I'm not understanding her question. "Love is awesome, but" proceeds to tell story again, "what do they do for that?"

One of the great regrets of my life that I was not ready for that and told her a lesbian story from mythology and moved on.

I am in awe of this wonderful woman.

I am so so happy. What a wonderful woman. I hope someday when I encounter a strange concept I've never heard of, I respond to it with that open curiosity and acceptance.