We Know What We Are, But Not What We May Be

[qos]

Re-connecting with Nick and talking about how we each have changed has prompted me to think again about how little my current life resembles anything I imagined for myself when I was growing up.

I did not expect that at age 43 I would. . . .

* be divorced
* be a single parent
* live in an apartment rather than a house I owned
* not have a professional career
* have a spiritual vocation
* be a Pagan (much less a Pagan priestess!)
* actually have found and be loved by a man who embodied the characteristics of my daimon
* had that man die two years after I met him
* be more or less “out” as a member of spiritual and sexual “alt” groups

Looking back, there is no possible way the girl I was up until age 25 or so could have remotely imagined who I was going to become or what my life was going to be like.

Comments

[lupagreenwolf.livejournal.com]

Hell, I'm amazed at what's happened in five years--never mind almost two decades! *boggles*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_storyteller_/]

Makes me wonder what then future will bring me.

[qos.livejournal.com]

You've been through so many changes in the few years since I've met you, it's mind-boggling -- and the next year or so promises to be equally dramatic, if in different ways. It's hard to imagine who you'll be and what your life will look like when you hit 30, much less forty-something.