Thursday, March 26, 2015

Doors and Windows

I have learned never to move without doors and windows.  When I was young, my mother would flee her domestic situation in the middle of the night.  She would have nowhere to go.  She would not have a job.  She didn't even give notice that she was leaving.  Granted her situation was dire, it had been dire years before she decided to do something about it.  It had been dire so long that she could have made her exit with a little more thought.  One time, I remember her running to a city where her professional license was null and void.  She had to go back to school to take classes just to do what she had done so easily in the state that she ran from.  It was the worst year of our lives.  We were so impoverished.  I learned from that, that one should always look for doors and windows.  Never move to a place because you want a change of venue.  Move because there is a job or a spouse or an opportunity.  Move because you can be a better you in a better place.  If you are just fed up with seeing the sun rise over the same cornfield, .................stay where you are.

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