Reply #35: I feel like I have a second chance [View All]

[StellaBlue]

I was definitely trapped in the dual-income, big-mortgage, rat-race, loveless-marriage, spiritual-death path of life until choices were made for me (which at the time I didn't want to accept because I had worked so hard to try to make things work out, both personally and work-wise), but after I'd had the distance of a few weeks, I realized I'd been presented with a marvelous opportunity to totally change the course of my life. Largely because I have a mother who is here for me when I need some help and a place to stay while trying to save some money.

I will never sublimate what I know is right and what the purpose of my life is to anyone else, or anyone else's dreams, or anyone else's demands (and here I am thinking of everyone from my ex to * himself) again. It's hard, but I think I have been given a chance to NOT be in the rat race, to NOT be another corporate wage slave (something I always inherently bristled against). I just have to stay on course.

And it's for the other people who see the right way but for whatever reason do not have the opportunity to be on it, that I make this choice.

I'm not the only one. Perhaps one day you will join us.