as Lawrie isn't proetesting that a sister got a horse when she was her age, she was protesting her getting one when there was no prospect of her getting one at that time or later.
And in fact, she eventually did get a horse - shares in The Idiot Boy with Peter. Given the stables at Trennels and the fact that a horse once bought was, in their circumstances, really not costly to keep, if Lawrie had thought about it sensibly, she'd have known that while no one could promise she'd definitely have a horse of her own at any definite point in time, she would, if she really wanted a horse, be able to get one at some point when a suitable one became available at a price they could afford. What would have been wrong would have been making false promises of "You'll have one for your next birthday" or "by next Christmas" when nothing like that could have been definitely promised.
I do actually think that; it's the way I was raised
Ah well. I was raised to believe that as my brother and sister and I were all different people wanting different things, we wouldn't all get the same things. That my sister got ballet lessons and I didn't, or I got riding lessons and my sister didn't, or my brother got driving lessons and I didn't: we weren't clones of each other, and we were different ages, and we got different things at different times. My mum figured that we had to learn earlier rather than later that just because your sibling gets something doesn't mean you must automatically get something the same or of equal value at the same time - because life's not like that.
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Date: 2005-08-30 09:39 pm (UTC)And in fact, she eventually did get a horse - shares in The Idiot Boy with Peter. Given the stables at Trennels and the fact that a horse once bought was, in their circumstances, really not costly to keep, if Lawrie had thought about it sensibly, she'd have known that while no one could promise she'd definitely have a horse of her own at any definite point in time, she would, if she really wanted a horse, be able to get one at some point when a suitable one became available at a price they could afford. What would have been wrong would have been making false promises of "You'll have one for your next birthday" or "by next Christmas" when nothing like that could have been definitely promised.
I do actually think that; it's the way I was raised
Ah well. I was raised to believe that as my brother and sister and I were all different people wanting different things, we wouldn't all get the same things. That my sister got ballet lessons and I didn't, or I got riding lessons and my sister didn't, or my brother got driving lessons and I didn't: we weren't clones of each other, and we were different ages, and we got different things at different times. My mum figured that we had to learn earlier rather than later that just because your sibling gets something doesn't mean you must automatically get something the same or of equal value at the same time - because life's not like that.