I hope that you get into a better place because the help for the elderly is a worthy goal and the kindly one that may be a bright spot for them. It is always a great resource to hear of their life experiences. I am glad you have your cat to keep you company and that he brings comfort to you. My cat is a delight and a great little fuzzy buddy and family to me.
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If you could do anything....
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I am not sure. Used to want success in my chosen field but not really attached to that anymore. If money was not an issue I’d buy a huge parcel of land and pay for it to be restored to as natural a condition as could be. A reserve, private & protected as possible.
I’d put effecient small cabins on the edge of it, off grid, and make them available for people who needed time in nature, to heal, write, create. No pets because I’d want the wildlife to have the freedom of the place.
My life work would be anonymous. I might stop in there at the reserve to see how things were going. I’d live fairly simply but with a lot more self discipline. I’d have a huge room with lots of windows and create paintings and delicious meals. Morning runs, afternoon swims, evenings with my husband.
I’d put effecient small cabins on the edge of it, off grid, and make them available for people who needed time in nature, to heal, write, create. No pets because I’d want the wildlife to have the freedom of the place.
My life work would be anonymous. I might stop in there at the reserve to see how things were going. I’d live fairly simply but with a lot more self discipline. I’d have a huge room with lots of windows and create paintings and delicious meals. Morning runs, afternoon swims, evenings with my husband.
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I can definitely understand that. I think, I thought I'd be dead by this age, so the future is just kind of hard to fathom. Even right now is hard to fathom. If that even makes sense. Existence is sometimes the best we can do.
I have 2 dogs now. I was always more of a cat person, but after having had a dog I would feel incomplete without one. I hope I get to have a cat again eventually. They are so incredibly comforting.
Of course! Glad we could talk!
I have 2 dogs now. I was always more of a cat person, but after having had a dog I would feel incomplete without one. I hope I get to have a cat again eventually. They are so incredibly comforting.
Of course! Glad we could talk!
I love this so much!!!! What a selfless dream. I mean, restoring nature is an act for everyone, but the fact that you want your mission to be bringing others peace in a healed environment....Gold star, man, really! I want to be the work camper at your lodges. May I?
What was your chosen field, if you don't mind me asking?
What was your chosen field, if you don't mind me asking?
Architecture.
Yes absolutely I’d hire you.
Yes absolutely I’d hire you.
Phew, I'm glad my retirement job is lined up now! Where will we buy? I'll pitch in on the land! That's our next big move anyway!
had i been left (when a child) to gravitate to my real interests, maybe i would have become a violinist or some other kind of musician, but my parents and grandfather tricked me into studying the violin and then grandpa bribed me to keep at it with silly gifts. and i think that my grandfather used the same tactics to sexually abuse my sister. puts quite a twisted look to doing things for that man.
but i may also have chosen sociology and or psychology and or anthropology. i am really intrigued by human nature, thinking and how we might make a better world. i’m sure I’d have chosen some kind of art as a hobby. but i don’t think it is suitable for me as a career. then i think of my poetry (that sorry i do not share much on this site), i love it. it satisfies something - a game with words!!! i’ve submitted a few times with no positive results so maybe the only one who can love it is me. nonetheless, i love it. that does carry some weight. maybe that is my life’s calling and truest art.
but who is me? i know 100% sure, i’d be a very different person. i would not be “not of this earth”. and instead of simply skyrocketing to the other end of life, i’d have broken free of my shackles and would have been the person i was really meant to be. it is only now that i’ve attempted and come close. but now is, if not too late, definitely not soon enough. so maybe this will give you an idea of what i could do if i could do anything.
but i may also have chosen sociology and or psychology and or anthropology. i am really intrigued by human nature, thinking and how we might make a better world. i’m sure I’d have chosen some kind of art as a hobby. but i don’t think it is suitable for me as a career. then i think of my poetry (that sorry i do not share much on this site), i love it. it satisfies something - a game with words!!! i’ve submitted a few times with no positive results so maybe the only one who can love it is me. nonetheless, i love it. that does carry some weight. maybe that is my life’s calling and truest art.
but who is me? i know 100% sure, i’d be a very different person. i would not be “not of this earth”. and instead of simply skyrocketing to the other end of life, i’d have broken free of my shackles and would have been the person i was really meant to be. it is only now that i’ve attempted and come close. but now is, if not too late, definitely not soon enough. so maybe this will give you an idea of what i could do if i could do anything.
This reads like a stream of consciousness chapter from a poetic autobiography. You have a really natural style, it's easy to read. I think some of what you're saying ties in to the thread where we discussed who we will never know we might have been if we hadn't been abused. I feel that.
I used to want to be a psychologist. The more you know about the way brains work....It's like becoming an IT guy for your own head! That could only be useful.
I used to want to be a psychologist. The more you know about the way brains work....It's like becoming an IT guy for your own head! That could only be useful.
This is beautiful and basically what I want as well. Just to feel peace and comfort must be so nice! Not that I have Never felt it, but to Keep those feelings would be divine!
I want to get to the beach again For Sure!!!! And the woods are my favorite out here! Dense and mossy and magical. Wanna go on a hike with me?
I want to get to the beach again For Sure!!!! And the woods are my favorite out here! Dense and mossy and magical. Wanna go on a hike with me?
Yes
I love beaches and forests, luckily I do live near the woods but I'm nowhere near a beach and havent been for years
the dream would be to be within walking distance of forest AND beach 
