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Someday Soon You Won't Even Recognize Us

Conversation last night:

Me:How come it seems like everyone else has got it so together and we struggle with everything? We're never happy with anything and we can't ever relax.
Shane: Everyone else works.
Me: You work.
Shane (rolling eyes): I work one day a week for a few hours. Everyone else works five or six days a week, all day long. I mean, can you even IMAGINE that? Can you imagine doing the same thing all day long, five days a week? That's ridiculous. People's jobs consume them. They have a day or two off a week and they can't even do anything because they're so exhausted from working all week. Think about that. Think about never seeing me or Zane because we both work all day every single day. Working harder and harder to get that raise to make a few extra bucks a month so one day we can retire. We've got a different world. We're always struggling for something else, something more. We'll get there.

For some reason, it has never really occurred to me that Shane & I don't really work. He has a job where he has to work one or two days a week, a few hours at a time, and he gets to choose when. And even though we are making less money now than we ever have, we aren't on the road anymore, and we're still making as much as most people our age, who work every day. It's a transition, as Shane says. And it's a hard one. But one day, we will have our farm, and we will be mostly self-sustained, and things will be everything we dream them to be. And it's not so far off, really. A few more years. And won't that be nice?

Also, I can't believe how awesome Zane is. He is such an amazing little kid. How lucky am I to have him, really? But it's more than luck. I know that. There's a lot more to it than luck.

4:32 p.m. - Saturday, Dec. 08, 2007
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