Thanks for catching up here! I have another post in my head which I’ll try to get typed some time soon. It should expand a bit more on “today’s world” as you aptly put it.

-Fruey

Somehow, your article at Urban Semiotic slipped right by me. I just read it now. I would have preferred to comment during the heat of the exchange, but what you wrote was very good and captured a lot about what life is like in today’s world. My compliments!

Striking a balance is one of life’s main challenges!

Thanks for the compliment on the article. It’s nice to write somewhere else and change tone a little from time to time. That strikes a balance too

-Fruey

Secondly - your article is spot on. Our world these days just doesn’t make sense!! I’m trying really hard to remember that life happens OUTSIDE of work and I just have to be here to pay the bills…sadly I have to spend 40 hours of my week here to pay the bills. I wish more significance was put on simplicity, living a life that meets your needs but not drowns in excess and finding happiness in people, relationships, walking in the woods and family than in acquiring ’stuff.’ There’s got to be a balance out there somewhere. I’m 32 and soon to be married and hopefully soon to have kids after that and I really hope I can figure it out a little bit before then. We’ll see…..

Nice to see you here.

I don’t think my days of singlehood were quite “care free”, but I suppose that they were relatively speaking.

The new commitments in life as you get older do help change perspective on what life’s objectives are. Giving knowledge and training to others (or to your kids) becomes more and more important than your own development. That said, your development continues on a different level, as well as vicariously.

I don’t think that once you have reached a stage in life (in a couple, engaged, married, children, etc) that you should look back with regret. Just with fond memories and positive nostalgia.

-Fruey