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Originally Posted by rogerg
Unfortunately I'm some time off being financially able to give up my day job and move to a remote bush block.
Andrew perhaps the chaos of your children forces you to exclude other activities and chaos from your life just to keep up with them? And so thereby not being any more or less chaotic than someone who fills their life with other dramas .... My theory is that everyone has a limit and they "fill up" to that limit throughout life but just through different activities.  |
Many people fill up their lives with busy activities that have little or no real meaing or value and much of this is self-inflicted. It can take some a major scare or life change to break free of the 'noise' of our lives and distill it down to the nucleous of value.
I left the rat race three years ago and do not miss any of my former working life business or busy-ness. There is the famous saying regarding death bed realisations - that 'no one ever wishes they had spent more time at work and less with the family'. Distill your life to what's important and ignore the rest.