When people ask me how I am I resist the urge to tell them that I need to win lotto, get a maid, a gardener, a nanny and a therapist. Instead I say that I'm fine, that life is good because it is, if I ignore the fact that I need all the aforementioned things.
Being a working mother is hard as anyone who has to do it can atest to. Lately I've been trying to make time to walk each afternoon with my neighbour. I use that time as therapy and offload all that worries me to her. Tonight however she didn't want to go walking. Her excuse was that she had walked hard today and had spent the entire day engaged in some heavy duty cleaning. I think she may have been sick of me offloading onto her.
I justified my reasoning by reminding myself that she isn't working right now, SHE has all the time in the world to exercise and clean. SHE doesn't even really care about how I feel. SHE is just selfish. I therapied myself and was able to work out that my feelings were born out of jealousy.
Right now I would almost kill for the chance to not have to work. Sure, I might get bored after three years or so but I would make the most of that boredom by reading three billion books. I might even learn how to sew or even make a vegetable garden. It would just be nice to have a pile of washing that at least appeared to become smaller on a daily basis.
It's not going to happen any time soon but never mind. I'm planning on inventing a machine that makes money that looks so real no one would ever know it's not.
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wouldn't make any difference if you weren't working. You'd still get to the end of the day and wonder what the hell happened to all the daylight hours and why you managed to achieve one small load of washing! Trust me, you'd be lucky to get half a page read before Henry is demanding attention (or going very quiet, which means you need to pay urgent attention, NOW!) (Isn't that right Carla, how's the moisturised remote?) I'm not working, and I'm nowhere near having planned the vegie patch, drawn up plans for the chicken house or cleaned the house top to bottom!
I don't think I'd ever be bored if I didn't have to work. There are so many things to fill your day. Plus, if you had all that money, you could always travel.
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