I’ve always worked particularly strenuous 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 suppose 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, Ventilation, and A/C 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 and a divorce. That just didn’t seem right to me. But the longer I sat inside the air conditioning of our modern house pondering it, the more I realized that it just didn’t matter. I suppose I just had to do what made me happy. So after I got back on our feet, healthier and not quite as heartbroken, I decided to take a sabbatical. I spent the past Winter way, way off in a cottage all by myself except for our modern life partner who is a appealing black lab. There was a wood stove for heating but the rest was a pretty spartan existence. No Wi-Fi or cell PCs. Shoot the only modern technology in that cottage was Heating, Ventilation, and A/C 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 hot the wood stove got a single I figured it out. Yet, the Heating, Ventilation, and A/C heating from the ductless heat pump did come in quite handy when the fire would burn out. It was an amazing Winter alone and I’m now fully prepared to embrace the next chapter of our life a bit more on our terms.