On the bright side, scaling back can be liberating. Fewer staff means fewer people to impress. You can eat cereal for dinner without someone judgingly polishing a fork nearby. Andrew might discover the joy of cooking his own eggs. Maybe a little too soft, maybe a little burnt—but they’re his eggs.
It’s like when you cancel your expensive cable package and suddenly find yourself enjoying antenna TV. The picture is fuzzy, but the shows are oddly charming. You feel fiercely independent even if you’re just watching reruns of The Golden Girls.
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What the rest of us can learn
Andrew’s staff reduction is a gentle reminder that we all have to downsize sometimes. Maybe you don’t need that deluxe streaming plan. Maybe you don’t need the premium coffee beans. Or maybe you do, and you just need to cut back on the fancy napkins.
The point is, we’re all just trying to make ends meet, whether we have a chamberlain or a cat. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is just like us, except his budget reduction makes headlines and ours is a quiet whisper in the grocery aisle when we put back the avocados.
