If your life was divided into chapters, what would the current one be called? (Still doing the all month long prompts by Rojie)
I think this chapter of my life would be calling ‘coasting’. Sounds about right for middle of life, right? (I don’t like the term mid-life, it makes me sound old, or like the best part is over.)
Right now I’m coasting through life. Not riding on the coat tails of anyone, I’m just being me. Knock on wood, life is calm and sort of peaceful at the moment. I’m so over impressing other people.
I’ve got the job that I never knew I always wanted. I was thinking about this the other day, how I’m pretty damn lucky after all those years of working shift work as a nurse, doing really hard things, and sometimes even psyching myself up to go into work, I now have a job I would do for free.
I’m not lying. If I was retired and the college said, hey would you be interested in coming in on a volunteer basis and teaching the Healthcare Aide Program? I would say YES! I really love my job that much.
So for now, that part of my life is set on cruise control, coasting.
Though I do enjoy self help/personal development books, I’ve kind of put that on a shelf for right now. I was big into this about ten years ago and it lasted a few years. But ‘The 5 am Club’ now? No thanks. I couldn’t be bothered. I’ll do what works for me and if it makes me slightly less of a go-getter to sleep til 6 or 7, I do not care.
Speaking of books, I started reading the autobiography of Jaycee Dugard last night, A Stolen Life – A Memoir. I’ve had this book for over a year and picked it up at the thrift store at my older daughter’s suggestion. I read a few chapters and I’m not finishing it. It’s too sad, too awful. Can’t do it.
Because I’m a Gen X’er, of course I remember this story well when it happened in real time. The details of what this poor girl went through are too heartbreaking for me to take on right now.
Has anyone else read it?
Snippets from life yesterday:
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