Inertia

Categories: life

Date: 27 August 2009 12:17:21

It struck me for three days! I think I've emerged kind of, sort of... Enough to get my act together to sort the mini-impending garden waste crisis, (having failed to put the green bin out early enough) and persuade a nice kind soul to take me to the local amenities site to avert the crisis.

Partly I've been catching up on sleep, partly I've been musing on why, for some reason that is beyond me, I've been listening to several people on the subject of their young, but adult off-spring, and getting hugely frustrated at the levels of control they seem to want to exert in their adult off-spring's lives. I'm not sure I'm the right person for this, as I tend to be on the side of the off-spring, and am definitely in trouble at the moment for suggesting to one such parent that maybe it was time to concentrate on their own lives, and let Off-Spring sort out their own.

Maybe I was lucky, I was financially independent of parents from a young adult age, and have never had the pressure of parents telling me how to live my life, because they pay for it. (I have sympathy for parents there, though!) Maybe I was just more protective of my own privacy, and told my parents very little, so the kind of disputes over unsuitable friends, choice of lifestyle, career never really came up because, on the whole, they were seen as my choices, my decisions once I had left the parental dwelling. (Somewhere I've not looked on as home since I left.)

Or possibly, when I was living with my parents, I learned the art of looking as if I were conforming whilst quietly going my own way!

I'm also beginning to be really thankful my choice (after a certain amount of debate with God) of living out my life as a Christian was so clearly my own, not because it was the way I was brought up.