Once upon a time I had a dream about the life I would live….

This isn’t it.

Yet through the life experiences I have had, I have come to appreciate that the things we want and the things we get are often quite disparate, in strange and wonderful ways.  In my 40′s now and retired from the U. S. Navy, I am finding that life does not always lead where we thought it might, but the journey is still fascinating and rich and sometimes a little painful.

In my very first post I wrote this:

I am a middle-aged, middle-income, middle child of two middle children; between careers, not working much, not retired. 

Nowhere.

Or perhaps not precisely nowhere, but certainly between were I was when last I stood on solid ground and where I am going – some unknown destination.  And captive here for some undetermined timeframe.

Since that time, my retired life has taken slightly firmer form.  I have taken on some data analysis work that I find interesting and challenging.  I have come to better accept my role as the vigil-stander as my mother continues to fade away.  I have banded with a group of really wonderful women to form a non-profit organization (Veterans PetReach, Inc.).

In forming those relationships I have come to realize that it is not in the certainty of career, address, income that help us build relationships, but it is in being open to relationships that we overcome the uncertainty of career, address and income.

 

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