Hugh Jackman's Body!

 You may be surprised to read the title of this entry!  What is a meditating Grandmother doing writing about Hugh Jackman's body.  Well….. We were on our way to a wedding yesterday which meant that I could read ALL of the Saturday Times magazine without anyone wanting to take it away and without feeling that I shouldn't be reading for 2 hours non stop on a Saturday morning.   As I am always on the lookout for a snappy item to put in the Granny blog, I was thrilled to read Polly Vernon's interview with Hugh Jackman because I am one of his aged fans!   You see he was asked about his body for which he has had to develop extra muscles to be Wolverine and his beard to play some other part..  I quote what he says (but you can read the whole article by clicking this link) "This….is not my body!"   "He seems" says the interviewer, "genuinely detached from the hardened, muscular bulk currently propping his head up, as if it's a suit he wasn't sure about and someone else convinced him to wear. "
Of course, I think, this man speaks the truth and yet we are surprised yet it clearly makes sense doesn't it?  We only are what we are at the moment we are it, the real bit of us is never encased in a body, we have them and they grow and diminish and get hairy in some places and bald in others, those bodies don't remain the same for a single second but we do, we peer out of them when we are babies, we scramble to our feet when we are toddlers, we race and play our way towards adolescence when we start peering at ourselves looking out of new shapes and then we let them give us children and we play with them, then perhaps we play golf or bridge or bingo and then they start to creak a bit and diminish and we hand them back.  And yet we are surprised… we shouldn't be.  I think Hugh Jackman knows a thing or two don't you!