far off base

You know you're a loser when.....

one of your family members, who was a nun for 20+ years gets pregnant.


Now it boggles the mind. In my large devout family, she was a person to look up to. She was a nun in another country for years, given her youth to God and everything that comes with it. I'd never met her before but heard of all her adventures to all these countries I'd never heard of and some I had heard.

Then word gets out that she has left the order and is coming to visit us and my other relatives. I wondered, why would she leave?

I thought of the worst, did she see something she wasn't supposed to see? what with that "priest" thing happening, maybe she saw corruption and left immediately.

She came, a plain woman with curves and short "nunlike" hair and cried everytime the subject came up on why she had left, after some wrangling and coaxing from some of my gossip hungry relatives the truth came out: she was pregnant.
This 40ish woman was preggers.

Now, this makes my life a bit sad. She's old, was a nun, and has probably gone through all the four bases when I haven't even gone to first base . very pitiful.
Very low life for me.

But then again, this could be like a lesson for me. Rumor has it that she met "the guy" at a university and my guess is he "Sweettalked" her, telling her lies about her being pretty and whatnot, and before you know it she ends up pregnant with his child.

this could be a lesson for me: don't trust sweettalking guys, better yet, don't trust guys at all. be alone and write sad poetry on scraps of paper