Hi LW
Published on June 14, 2006 By InfoGeek In Current Events
Well, it seems that LW’s article has given people cause to pause and reflect and confess the problems of their childhood. So it seems to be my turn, to confess.

Unfortunately I have nothing to confess. My life for the past 40 years has been normal, as generally defined. I have never tried drugs, became intoxicated, been abused in any form by parents or siblings, been arrested. My life, while not idyllic consisted of bike rides, four squares, game night, family vacations.

I am, basically non-social. I can be with others, I just to not prefer it. So my circle of friends was limited.

I enjoyed school and my teachers. They liked me as well. I was a good student of academia if not life in general.

My behavior has never ventured outside of the general mainstream, or past the acceptable confines of a social group.

My relationship with my parents, while at times rocky has always been a loving one, but even now, there are parts of my life that my mother does not understand. My father, best man at my wedding, now gone these pat three years, seemed to get me more.

This is not to say I have not been tempted by the “bad” life, there were times in my youth when there was an urge to rebel, go venture outside the norm, or “comfort zone” as it is called today, but my course was set, and such actions wee not me. So I let my imagination write the stories that part of me wants to live.

I do not think I am one of LWs “happy” people. Happy is too amorphous a concept and as a feeling far too fleeting.

I have reached in my life a place where everything is not to my liking and there are parts I cannot control that I wish I did, but as I look around at what I have in my life, I know what sort of person I am.

I am content.

IG

Comments
on Jun 14, 2006
Content = Happy

in my book anyway!
on Jun 14, 2006

Content = Happy

Forever beat me to it. 

WHile my life has been a little more controversial than yours (I will not say interesting as interest is in the eye of the beholder), it definitely does not include prison time and being Bubba's GF.  I have had fun tho, and some would say stupid fun, but then the best fun is often stupid fun!

on Jun 14, 2006

definitely does not include prison time and being Bubba's GF

Pfft.  You  just have not lived.

I think once we become adults, putting the past behind us kinda puts everyone on equal footing.  My husband's life was very normal and I am glad because I love him and don't wish pain on him.

Glad you are content.  That's a good place to be.

on Jun 14, 2006
very normal and I am glad


So am I, but part of me would not mind having just one story to tell. Nothing "big".

"Remember that time you threw up on that cops shoes when he pulled us over?"

or

"Tell them about the time it took three bouncers to get us off the stage at that strip club."


But normal is good.

IG



on Jun 14, 2006
Pfft. You just have not lived.


Of course. I am Borg. You will be assimilated!
on Jun 14, 2006

But normal is good.

You dont have to jump off the cliff to know what is at the bottom.  Some do, but many are content to see and believe.  And others must push the envelope and see for themselves.

Who is happier?  I will let you know when I ask the latter after I pass on.

on Jun 14, 2006
So am I, but part of me would not mind having just one story to tell. Nothing "big".


You just need one little tiny night out with a wild and crazy friend....ha. I have one girl friend, no matter how old we get, or how motherly, when we go out, something crazy ALWAYS happens...and that's without booze or any other drug.

She is a magnet for chaos. And it is usually pretty hysterical!
on Jun 14, 2006

Being "content with the day" is a very good thing.

You're so insightful about the part of "happiness being fleeting",  it truly is a transient thing,  and means so many different things to all.

Good article!!