Have been following your thread (lurking...it's that time of year i guess!) for a while...lots of good interaction with a couple of my old pals; the rarely-present-anymore Nomo and the exotic Sunny! Saying that i've enjoyed reading your thread doesn't sound quite appropriate given the subject matter, does it? However, I do like your writing style and ability.... I'm getting back into the swim of posting again, and thought I'd jump in here:
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I'm finding this kind of a sad place to be. I don't mean I'm feeling sad, but rather, "Wow, that's sad." Actually, when I think back over the M reflecting on what I'd really like and what I had, *that* feels pretty sad! Maybe H is right: He was just the first one to see it.
I can certainly relate to this feeling myself; there are times when i think 'I've invested virtually 1/2 my life in this R and this is where I am and what I've got?!?'
But I would guess that most people feel that way from time to time, even those who would consider themselves to have successful Ms. (I think that was ST's point...i'm quite the Luddite, so not good at manipulating these threads ) It's at times like those that, in a better world, we would all roll up our sleeves and get to work together bridging the gap between what we want in our M and what we have...if only!
And I guess what I keep coming back to is that at the end of the day, for those of us who have children of any age, a large part of what we do have together is them...and with only a very few exceptions we owe it to them to keep doing our part (even when it's on our own) in building that bridge...
Oh, and i could really go for a european cafe at the end of a slow-moving train ride through Europe itself, maybe watching the snow fall!!
) It's at times like those that, in a better world, we would all roll up our sleeves and get to work together bridging the gap between what we want in our M and what we have...if only!