I can’t help but read your post with a heavy french accent. A mournful soft tone, tinged with Gaulouise smoke, i think i hear the tinkle of ice in your Pernod, a world weary glance to the heavens as you smack me on the face with your rolled up Le Monde. Tais toi, stupid scaredy! My heart is breaking, and you make stupid jokes?
I love France, too.
I moimeme was an au pair in the ville of vincennes for one year after finishing college in the 80s. Just part of my floating around epriod, which ended about 7 years after that. To me, the France, she is awesome, but your homesickness is beyond France.
If you relocated to France, you’d still feel something is missing.
Basically, I am a firm believer in “wherever you go, there you are”. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t work less. Just that France is a state of mind. It’s not even a place. In fact, everyone knows this is nowhere. and the nowehere you find yourself at this moment is actually in the middle of a middleage crisis. Fortunately for yu, i am here to come to your aid.
Don’t freak out; although it doesn’t sound like you are freaking out. Just feeling empty, lonely, and kind of dead inside. Perhaps watching Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday will cheer you up until you can rearrange your affairs.
Any chance you could persuade your exfrancophile wife that moving to France is for the good of all involved? Perhaps you could throw ina free beeret.
I did my 7 year floating around period in the 80s when i was young. maybe you should do yours now.
[quote=CA renter][quote=Blogstar]Mental composition is there by 7, but helping them learn to live best with their personalities emotions strengths and weaknesses, interests and motivations is a much longer job. A 7 year old can be misdirected terribly over the next dozen years with very serious consequences. Nobody will do it perfectly but there is still a big job to do. There is a ton of ongoing care and nurturing due to them.[/quote]
Exactly. And stories like yours, where you lost your mom when you were young, really tear my heart out. I just cannot imagine having to leave my kids behind and would do anything in the world to avoid ever having to do that.[/quote]
probably many of your peers have already been througha divorce by now! I think there’s an advantage for taking things slowly in life. and for not catchng on to things too quickly. i also beleive we all have an internal sense of when the right time for things for us is. so i’d say really, you are meant to be where you are…and everything is going to be aok…
It’s about the loser Asian son in a traditional family who talks like a gangsta and thinks he’s on the verge of an NBA career even though he only plays little kids and how he grows up.
I kinda loved it after a few days of pondering I t!
I just won some rattle gaiters on ebay! I’m gonna do a 20 mile hike up that mountain once a month until I can’t any longer. In my gaiters with a knife for lion attacks.
