One of the things I am really having trouble with at this point in my life is how I seem to be slipping into the middle-aged-cliche-heavy-world. Is it simply a result of being born at the tail end of the baby-boom? Maybe it is just that there has been SUCH A SPOTLIGHT cast on this time of life in the last 10 years that it is impossible to feel that this experience is MY experience. All those people born 10 years ahead of me have appropriated everything and now I feel like a copycat. Sigh, well, damn, can’t help that.
I m preparing my way to cop out for the next decade. By the time I was 25, I had two toddlers and a a crashed marriage. I spent the next 20 years working my ass off, building a career and raising the boys and now I am done. When this contact ends is 2011, I am going to sell everything and take off for 10 years. I figure I have about a decade before I will be taking care of elderly parents. I have some money in a retirement fund, I will sell my house and use the profits to travel, explore and I will make no apologies to anyone. If it means I come home and wait on tables until I collapse, well, yay Canadian social safety network. I have contributed, at some point I should be able to collect.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I think a lot of people wish they had the courage to just pack everything up and take off for a while…go for it!
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Sounds like a great plan. One of my parents died after a LENGTHY (10 year) bout of Parkinsons. He was a lovely man. I am now stressed to the gills with my Mom and her COPD. She is in total denial that she needs help as she accidently steps on her oxygen hose and cuts off her air.
Give me strength! I feel I have lived for them and missed my life somewhere along the way. No wonder I seek refuge in chocolate!
Bon Voyage!
Shari