Musing

I have in mind a post about healthcare reform, since I've been thinking about that frequently this week. However, tonight I'm just a bit too distracted for such an intellectual posting. That one will have to wait.

Tonight I'm writing my little book project (I've hit 60 pages now... and the ideas are coming fast, it's just finding the time to actually write that is slowing me down.) and relaxing because I'm supposed to run a 5K in the morning.

I'm tired from working too much this week, and wondering why I allow myself to be dragged into work when what I should really do is rest, or play with my kids. Sadly, I think the answer is that it's all about the money. Got to have the money to do the fun things in life. Like eat.

When I have a week like this, it makes me think that the modern world just cannot continue this way. People (like me) are getting torn in too many directions by the things that are deemed 'necessary' to modern life. We have to have a full time job. A full time family. We work until we're exhausted and then come home and do household shores until we fall, exhausted into too short an amount of sleep, only to wake up and do it again the next day. When we finally get to vacation, we take a whirlwind trip somewhere that is usually just as stressful as our everyday life, and come back tired to start it all again.

And for those of us who choose not to work, then in almost every case, money is a big concern.

Modern life is so exhausting. It's no wonder everyone is on antidepressants these days.

I think I'm going to take a nap.