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Thank u …. i really love to read ur posts 🙂 BTW u keep smiling like this …..

This is all so interesting. I am exactly the opposite in so many ways–I didn’t get any of the prep and early start you got, my pre-college education was pathetic, and despite being so thankful to get away from my family, I was a trembling, unprepared, hiding-in-my-room college freshman who had no clue what to do or how to behave. But other than going to college and wanting to marry, I’ve made untraditional decisions. Or, like I said, it almost felt like I wasn’t much involved in the decision-making, like I never had much choice. That’s certainly how I felt about not having children–it was always so clear that just wasn’t for me. Anyway, I truly do believe you understood yourself by 15 in a way I didn’t manage until… maybe 35. Seriously. It’s amazing and in many ways I’m SO envious. But mostly just very entertained! Looking forward to more….

Oh my gosh, Aishwarya, 22 and on your way to 60–I love that. It’s difficult to have your life turn upside down at the young age of 16, but you sound like you bounced back. Thanks for your comment and welcome to Catching Days.

I would consider my unhappiness normal teenage rebellion that was taking place in my head instead of in my actions. Home was great. But I wanted to be in charge and of course I wasn’t. I had responsibilities and consequences and curfews and parents who cared about me and didn’t let me run wild. Hence the face.

Young Life is a nondenominational Christian group and the Western Tour was a month on a bus that went west and stopped at all the major spots. For ex, at 2:00 in the morning we stood in the street in Dallas in front of the School Book Depository building, looking up at the window marked with an X, the window from which LHO allegedly shot President Kennedy, and we were let loose in Las Vegas and told to be back at the bus by midnight. We went all the way to Hollywood and then started back, spending a week at a YL ranch in Colorado.

I know what you mean about fragmenting, and I started that way back–in my early 20’s. But you may be on to something. That may be why I’m having to work so hard to find the wick running through all the different me’s.

I did have a lot of agency in the big sense, and once I went off to college, I was completely in charge. It’s just that I made such traditional decisions–other than making sure I could support myself, which, except for being female, is also traditional. It’s like I was trapped in a bubble of my own making…

Sorry for the response that was longer than the post!

Hi Karen, welcome to Catching Days. With so many years behind me, it’s more like running down memory lane. And now you have me playing the Age of Aquarius again. Of all the songs it sounds so 1970. Thanks for reading and commenting. Hope you’ll be back.