It would be nice if

[cjsmith]

One of the reasons I want to change careers is so that I have time and energy for the it-would-be-nice-ifs of life. It would be nice if I could see my parents more often. It would be nice if I sent a thank-you card to people we stayed with a few weeks ago. It would be nice if I could think of a costume for Halloween.

Maybe in ten years I'll get there. (Today is a rather grumpymaking day; I point this out in case the previous sentence didn't clue you in.) The parents and the costume, well, I'll have to retire to have that kind of time, and at the rate I'm going I will have neither parents nor legs by then. But I can make time for the littler it-would-be-nice-ifs. Small things I can do. Sufficiently small things, I can do now. It took just a few minutes to send a card this evening. It's better than doing nothing. Right? And it makes life happier both for me and for the recipient. For a few minutes spent, that's pretty good. Right? Right.

Enough musing. Something tells me "it would be nice if" I got my laundry out of the dryer. Here I go.

Comments

Re: life

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Life is too short to be unhappy.

Well, I have commitments I intend to honor. Given the financial and personal "unchangeables," the almost-ten-year plan is a good one, and I'll be a lot happier at fifty than I am at forty. I wish it weren't going to take so long, but then again, in ten years I'll be fifty either way, eh? May as well be heading in the right direction!

Good luck and God bless.

Thanks!

Re: life

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Make the journey fun, too?

Re: life

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I sure hope so!