I’ve consistently worked really difficult all our life.
Like several in our generation, I’m left wondering just why I followed the rules all the time the way I did.
I believe there was this implied promise that if you do all the right things, you’ll be rewarded. I spent a lot of time inside an office with zone controlled Heating & Air Conditioning trying to do the right thing by our family. And there are no regrets when it comes to that effort. But our reward was a heart attack from stress at 53 & a divorce. That just didn’t seem right to me. But the longer I sat inside the a/c of our new lake house pondering it, the more I realized that it just didn’t matter. I suppose I just had to do what made myself and others happy. So after I got back on our feet, healthier & not quite as heartbroken, I decided to take a sabbatical. I spent the past Wintertide way, way off in a cottage all by myself except for our new life partner who is a relaxing black lab. There was a wood stove for heating but the rest was a pretty spartan existence. No wireless or cell iphones. Shoot the only new technology in that cottage was Heating & Air Conditioning technology. There was a ductless heat pump inside the cottage. At first, I didn’t suppose that I’d need that at all given how sizzling the wood stove got a single I figured it out. Yet, the Heating & Air Conditioning heating from the ductless heat pump did come in quite handy when the fire would burn out. It was an amazing Wintertide alone & I’m now fully prepared to embrace the next chapter of our life a bit more on our terms.