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infinite monkey · 03-09-2012, 05:26 PM

I get occasional emails from the Peace Corps, because every so often I just want to chuck it all and go do something meaningful and get off the grid.

I got one today. Timing is everything. This might be the thing I sit in my rocking chair lamenting never having done. No way could I be far away from my family for two years. My parents, while healthy, really healthy for their age, are in their early 70s and I don't want to miss one moment with them. I don't want to miss one moment of my nieces growing up, or my older nieces and nephews and their accomplishments.

Yet it tugs at me. I think it is partly mid-life crisis, looking for meaning, disgusted with so much of what I see around me.

Probably there is some kind of assessment. I think when they ask why I would want to make this kind of commitment my answer "because the world sucks" wouldn't go over too well. They're probably looking for someone more upbeat.

03-09-2012, 05:26 PM	#210
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I get occasional emails from the Peace Corps, because every so often I just want to chuck it all and go do something meaningful and get off the grid. I got one today. Timing is everything. This might be the thing I sit in my rocking chair lamenting never having done. No way could I be far away from my family for two years. My parents, while healthy, really healthy for their age, are in their early 70s and I don't want to miss one moment with them. I don't want to miss one moment of my nieces growing up, or my older nieces and nephews and their accomplishments. Yet it tugs at me. I think it is partly mid-life crisis, looking for meaning, disgusted with so much of what I see around me. Probably there is some kind of assessment. I think when they ask why I would want to make this kind of commitment my answer "because the world sucks" wouldn't go over too well. They're probably looking for someone more upbeat.