Leave This Life
My husband and I have had a number of conversations lately about simply packing up our lives and ‘running away’ from everything and everyone we know.
It makes me wonder about the logisitics of actually doing something like that. We are established here. We live in a town we’ve both lived in since Primary School, the husband has lived here his whole lifetime. Our immediate families all live within 45minutes drive of our house. We have permanent, well-paying jobs and a mortgage that depends upon these jobs. As much as people tell us otherwise, we are getting older, maybe even ‘too old’ for that sort of thing - we’re at the point in our lives where we’re really thinking about having children in the next few years. Besides, where would we go? What would we do when we got there? How long would we go for? What would happen to our ’stuff’? How would we support ourselves while we were away? I’m too useless for hard labour (no seriously. I can admit my flaws).
I feel really torn between a massive, enormous, life-changing adventure and the life we have worked so hard to build. At the end of the day, my logical mind knows it’s all just ’stuff’ - the cars, the house and everything within it. But my logical mind also knows that one day I will want children, and children need just that. A home to live in. A car to transport them to doctors appointments. Money to put food in their mouths. I want all that for myself too! Could we just give all that away and be confident that the world will provide us with another opportunity to build all that again?
Planethalder said,
January 22, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Hi, I surfed over here from Girl Dates London - perhaps if you’re not ready for a huge leap into the unknown, why not make small changes do a few things differently in the life you have now. It will make life spicier and who knows - it may prepare you for the bigger leap if and when you’re ready for it. Just a thought.
Wanderlusting said,
January 24, 2008 at 7:44 am
Aw man…wish I had a husband to run away with! I am so used to packing off and taking off on my own, I can’t wait to be able to actually do it with SOMEONE, as a team, one day. If I were you, start small and see how far that takes you (like Planethalder suggests above)
brunette said,
February 1, 2008 at 6:20 pm
We’re thinking we’re going to take baby steps and get the mortgage down as much as possible, as soon as possible. I think that will lead us to a bit of a ‘fork in the road’ at some one… one path will lead to children, the other to long-term travel, with children afterward.
We might be able to keep all our stuff and still manage to get that ‘running away’ feeling at the same time. Best of both worlds!
Now just to get to that fork…