Would that it were simply a quarter-life crisis! I am close to ten years older than mouseme, I have a partner and a child and am very happy with my family. . . but not owning a house and a garden ("by a lake or river or ocean!" she dreams) gnaws at me frequently.
It doesn't help that, at my age and stage of life, I'm pretty much expected to have a house. I have even had individuals reproach me for raising my daughter in an apartment! (That's when I'm not being chastised for raising her as an only child.)
Mouseme, I hear ya, and I sympathize. There's a reason why Yeats' poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is my favorite poem, especially the final stanza: "I will arise and go now, for always night and day/ I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;/While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,/ I hear it in the deep heart's core." I love the city, but . . .
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It doesn't help that, at my age and stage of life, I'm pretty much expected to have a house. I have even had individuals reproach me for raising my daughter in an apartment! (That's when I'm not being chastised for raising her as an only child.)
Mouseme, I hear ya, and I sympathize. There's a reason why Yeats' poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is my favorite poem, especially the final stanza: "I will arise and go now, for always night and day/ I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;/While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,/ I hear it in the deep heart's core." I love the city, but . . .