Yeah, again I had to change my password. Do I just accept this as normal? –Ho hum, another day, another password. If I do, then I have to have some sort of easy system to remember from day to day. Month and day, then some punctuation, then the year? I don’t know, but it is a system.
Anyway, enough grousing about that. County fair is coming up soon. I will, as usual, be entering some pictures. Strange ones this time. I am working with photographic impressionism, so who knows how well they will show. This town is the biggest in the area, but sometimes very strict in its interpretation of just what should be. I mean, the town voted blue in the last presidential election, but purple would have been the most accurate color. Old habits and mind sets change slowly. There are rules for photographs, the main one being “focus!”
You are probably thinking “what does this have to do with empty nest?” Give me a moment, I’ll come up with an analogy.
I have it. Just because we are gettin’ up there in years, double digits over 35, we should continue to explore and examine the world and our world views. It is okay to change our mind. Some people never change their mind, can never admit that they changed their mind, and become rigid and unbending.
The world is changing around us, and as much as we want that bucolic retirement, we need to keep up with the change. Personally, I hate it. I am slow to change. I complain — loudly– about it. And then I change. Look, I am blogging now.
I still have my own personal mental blocks, things I work on continually. We will see.
As parents we worked hard to give our children whatever we thought they needed to make it in the world. It was easy to forget ourselves. I have younger friends who are staying home to raise their children (like I did). My advice to them is to keep busy with something they like–volunteer, write, blog on their passion. That way, when the kids leave the house, there is a path to help lead them back into the world. There is a path that others can see.
This post is kind of jumpy, I should be spending my time on three more resumes, not changing my password for the umpteenth time.
Have a great weekend
AnnaB
