Posted by:
angsty
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Date: January 18, 2011 07:38PM
So, I resigned five or so years ago, but every once in a while the liberation of it all hits me again and I get all excited. This is one of those moments.
In my life:
-I don't need an organization monitoring my underwear.
-I don't need unqualified, ignorant opinions on alcohol or sex.
-I don't need unqualified, ignorant opinions on what makes a good marriage or how to solve the problems I encounter in the course of my married life.
-I don't need to consider advice from persons of dubious authority before common sense-- and I am well-qualified to discern qualified authority and reject unqualified opinions.
-I can do whatever I damn well please on Sunday-- including real QUALITY family time.
-I can do whatever I damn well please on Monday night-- and not some prescribed indoctrination session masquerading as quality family time.
-I'll read and watch whatever suits my fancy. I'm a big girl, I can make those decisions.
-I'll write in a journal if I want to, and if I don't I won't. Obsessive journaling and scrapbooking about a pathetic life isn't going to make it any more significant. Plus all that time I used to spend laboring over such trivial matters can now be spent actually living. I'm no longer worried about the appearance of a life well-lived. I'm too busy actually living to bother with that.
-I don't need to be friends with everyone. Everyone doesn't have to like me. I don't need to bother with lights and bushels and being a city on a hill. People don't need my example. They're capable of figuring things out themselves. If they want to know what I do, they can ask. Otherwise, I'm not going to live my life as if everyone were watching all the time. That's exhausting and self-absorbed and weird.
-I don't need a template for living and decision-making. I don't need to follow a prescribed pattern. I can make my own plan based on my own needs and wants.
I could go on for days. I'm so happy that I'm no longer submitting to a system that doesn't benefit me. My life is so much better now.
Anyone else?