Are you keeping up appearances?

How does what you do make a difference in this world?

How do you show up every day?

When I grew up, there was a show on TV called ‘Keeping up appearances.’

The main character, Hyacinth Bucket, or Bouquet as she called herself, lived a life pretending to be well off and part of society’s elite. I still vividly can hear her over-the-top English accent as she tried to make everyone believe she was the living example of high status.

The reality was different.

Her family was working (although some didn’t work) middle class, who did not care much about Hyacinth’s aspirations.

Messy, honest, authentic people trying to make the best of life as it came. Not always perfectly groomed, like Hyacinth, but with good intentions.

The most endearing moments in nearly every episode were when Hyacinth’s pretending aspirations failed miserably, proving that everybody saw straight through her and resulting in moments of personal vulnerability and authenticity.

Good old British humor.

The plot always was that who she really was and who she pretended to be were totally different.