Midlife Musings

Reflections on life from 40-something

what’s normal?

November10

I’ve been doing alot of thinking in the past few days,and I guess I’ve had a paradigm shift. I’ve been thinking about doing so and so “when life gets back to normal”. Last week, I realized that this is my normal. Everyday is different, it’s just a fact of my current life. What this means is that I need to change the way I live it, because my life is going to be this way for quite some time to come. I need to embrace and enjoy it, instead of fighting it. I know this seems so simplistic, and maybe obvious to some of you. But if you knew how I crave structure, you’d realize this is a major change in philosophy for me. I like boxes, and my current life refuses to be crammed into neat stacks of stuff. And I don’t want to force my children into artificial square shaped conveniences.

2 Comments to

“what’s normal?”

  1. On November 13th, 2006 at 11:30 pm Denise (2 comments.) Says:

    Amen to that!

  2. On January 27th, 2007 at 10:17 pm Cass's Midlife Musings- Avoiding midlife crisis with family, faith, politics, humor and the laundry chronicles Says:

    [...] did, yes. Right up until the day I wrote this post. The books will still be there, after all, won’t they?Technorati Tags: booking through [...]

 
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