How you live your life and how you perceive those around you is fundamental to your experience on earth. If you ignore the drunken garage door operator, the ex-meth provider working to make child support, the hoarding OCD ranting uncles, as a waste of your time, you have removed yourself from what makes you interesting. The ability to sift through the crap that doesn't matter and listen to lives lived in another dimension is an extraordinary gift. A culture with its own definition of rules, opportunity and success is an expansion of the rigid solitary existence from which we mature. Who decrees what is acceptable? Where is the right place? Why is it embarrassing to have three old vehicles? How do you remember when the question is gone?
I did not graduate from college, I have never made $15,000 on my own in a single year. I do not drive and buy 95% of my clothes at thrift stores, but I have lived in Italy for two years. I was given the opportunity to work with amazing, intelligent, kind people. I mothered three wonderful children who I fought desperately for them to achieve and far surpass me.
I married at eighteen and do not regret a minute. It has been such an adventure. I am so fortunate for the people I have known, the time they have given me. I am happy.
I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THE 97 BUICK OR THE SEMI-FERAL CAT IN THE SPARE ROOM.
I did not graduate from college, I have never made $15,000 on my own in a single year. I do not drive and buy 95% of my clothes at thrift stores, but I have lived in Italy for two years. I was given the opportunity to work with amazing, intelligent, kind people. I mothered three wonderful children who I fought desperately for them to achieve and far surpass me.
I married at eighteen and do not regret a minute. It has been such an adventure. I am so fortunate for the people I have known, the time they have given me. I am happy.
I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THE 97 BUICK OR THE SEMI-FERAL CAT IN THE SPARE ROOM.
