{"id":6707,"date":"2014-10-09T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T21:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2014-10-09T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T21:06:43","slug":"a-few-things-i-didnt-know-50-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyfullyjobless.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/a-few-things-i-didnt-know-50-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Things I Didn’t Know 50 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

I headed into my birthday week thinking it was time for a fresh inventory. As I was pondering this little project, I realized (once again) what a surprising life I’ve had. It certainly has exceeded my early expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n

I played around with that a bit and began to wonder what my expectations had been fifty years ago. (No one is more startled than I am that I was an adult fifty years ago!)<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 1964, I was 22, newly married and in my second year of teaching high school English and speech. I was still living in the small town in southern Minnesota where I grew up, although my parents and siblings had moved to Santa Barbara three years earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was already beginning to suspect that I was short changing myself, but my crystal ball was fuzzy.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be half a dozen years before I began finding the tools and inspiration that would begin moving me in a happier direction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking back to the person I was in 1964, I realized that there were several things I feared were beyond my reach, even though I secretly longed for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

So besides the Internet, which was far beyond my imagination at that time, what else has surprised me? What did I not know fifty years ago?<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are the biggest surprises:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 That I would find work that I loved so much I’d never want to stop doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 Learning is a lifetime adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 That self-employment is the best personal growth project ever invented.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 That inspiration is neither rare nor noisy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 That my life would be filled with people who had dreams and determination.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 When I know What I want, I can always figure out How to make it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 That I’d fill up several passports and fly more than a million miles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 That I’d love spending time with my smart siblings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 That I’d choose to live in Las Vegas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 That genuine security is nothing like the things I had been told constituted security.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b0 That Sedona, Venice and grandparenting were even better than I’d anticipated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I headed into my birthday week thinking it was time for a fresh inventory. As I was pondering this little project, I realized (once again) what a surprising life I’ve had. It certainly has exceeded my early expectations. I played around with that a bit and began to wonder what my expectations had been fifty…<\/p>\n

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