Baby Boomers,  Economy of Effort,  Womens Issues

I Read all the Cool Magazine Stuff

Yet, I do not need to de-clutter, get organized or redo anything.  I have always been a very practical woman and in the last couple of years it has really paid off.  What I have drug around the countryside with me are my memories, Patsy’s portrait, pictures of the kids and Ella Mae’s china.  There are no piles of extra clutter to donate to a needy family.  There is just what makes my family comfortable and what feels good to look at every single day…

I am not one of those people who wasted a lot of money on the latest gimmick, or the latest fashion.  That is not to say, I have never wasted money, I am just saying, I do NOT have a lot of stuff laying around the house.  What I am realizing at this late great date, is that I am not suddenly going to become anything.  I know what I like, what is important to me and what I will treasure.

Here is the thing: I love my family.  My most important goal in life is to be with my husband and be available as a friend, mother, sister to the rest of my family.  My best celebration is a celebration where the kids show up.  My best happiness is a vacation with the man I love, my husband.  I am not going to suddenly develop into a famous author, a songwriter, a wealthy artist – or anything like all of that.  I am and will always be, a woman who wants her family to be safe and happy.

You are wondering – what started this conversation?  As is so often the case, Oprah started this conversation.  There have been so many magazines that lead with the ‘get organized’ and the ‘de-clutter’ schema.  I just wanted to say that the magazines have been saying the same thing for the last 15 years.  There is this romantic notion that something will “fix” us.  What I am saying is that I don’t need fixing.  It may be my age, but I am saying, enough already!

I am a whole and complete woman as a I am, I do not need fixing, organizing or re-arranging.  It’s okay, I’m very grateful for just living and for being with people that I love – often.  So please stop with the improvement campaign.  We are okay, we are all okay.

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