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After living in Florida for the past forty years and for the past twenty wishing we were someplace else we are finally moving to Tennessee. We always wanted to move but family obligations, retirement, and kids always prevented us from going. This year, we just said “screw it” and quit or jobs, cashed in some investments and took the leap while were young enough to actually enjoy life.
The funny thing is that when our friends and co workers were told that we were leaving the same phrase “Man, I wish I had the guts to do what you’re doing”. I won’t know for a year or two if its guts or stupidity but it does feel right. I spent years keeping my family in place trying to give them a stable life and now that I’m fast approaching fifty, we are about to start all over again but with a little more coin in pocket. I’m finishing up packing after I type this and by tomorrow this time, I’ll have already been driving three hours towards our new life and a change I wish would have been made years before.
I would tell anyone that if you’re unhappy where you live, unappreciated where you work, or simply tired of the rat race just get out now before you’re too old. I (we) really reevaluated our lives and what we wanted almost a little too late. I won’t say it was a mistake staying put so long, but I won’t say it was the right thing either. I hope that everyone who reads this will take time to reflect on where they want to be in a year or two and if it isn’t where you’re at now maybe you need to escape before time sucks all the good years from you.
The funny thing is that when our friends and co workers were told that we were leaving the same phrase “Man, I wish I had the guts to do what you’re doing”. I won’t know for a year or two if its guts or stupidity but it does feel right. I spent years keeping my family in place trying to give them a stable life and now that I’m fast approaching fifty, we are about to start all over again but with a little more coin in pocket. I’m finishing up packing after I type this and by tomorrow this time, I’ll have already been driving three hours towards our new life and a change I wish would have been made years before.
I would tell anyone that if you’re unhappy where you live, unappreciated where you work, or simply tired of the rat race just get out now before you’re too old. I (we) really reevaluated our lives and what we wanted almost a little too late. I won’t say it was a mistake staying put so long, but I won’t say it was the right thing either. I hope that everyone who reads this will take time to reflect on where they want to be in a year or two and if it isn’t where you’re at now maybe you need to escape before time sucks all the good years from you.
