magilla

I've recently returned home, and it means you have to move on from I've been for the last fifteen to twenty years. It's liberating, confining, scary, and dull. But most of all, to go home again and not be subsumed, you have to go back as an adult and leave your extended adolescence behind. Life is no longer so much about learning, and expanding, and personal enrichment as it is about relationships and the responsibilities that those relationships engender. Altogether it is less exciting, but more real. And it has given my life and my opinion of my life a weight and consequence I wouldn't have expected. It's not worse, it's just different.

I wrote this in response to RoseMarie's journal. Go check her out. She's a thoughtful gal and a great story teller.