The Road Not Taken.

house_cat · ‎03-09-2010

One of my dearest friends is my age. We have a common career, salary and many common interests.

The difference is that she's never been married or had children, while I've been married 34 years and have had two children.

When I visit her home, I can't help wondering how it would be to have only myself to worry about, emotionally, physically, financially. She frequently reminds me that being alone has it's drawbacks. I guess the grass does look greener on the other side of the fence.

Do you ever wonder how different your life would be if you had made different choices?

~ house cat ~

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

One of my favorite saying is " nothing's perfect ". I don't compare my life to others because everyone has their own struggles.

" You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Sweetbay magnolia · ‎04-14-2013

Not really. I consider choices I make today as having impact, though, for my life ahead. I mean, OK, sometimes I wonder what it would be like with other men that I find appealing but that probably has little to do with anything important!

Cogito ergo sum

GCR18 · ‎07-03-2013

Yes, I've wondered that. Not necessarily did I have a family or not, but what if I went to a different school or took a different first job.

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

I'm a firm believer God placed me on the best possible path, and I have always been grateful. I don't look back ,or what if, I just know I am blessed.

MercysMom · ‎07-21-2016

I have a child but never married. I think my life is great just the way it is. Never really wanted to be married. I would not make a good wife but I am a really good mom. I think that was God's plan for me all along.

While I breathe, I hope - - South Carolina

homedecor1 · ‎03-09-2010

@MercysMom wrote:
I have a child but never married. I think my life is great just the way it is. Never really wanted to be married. I would not make a good wife but I am a really good mom. I think that was God's plan for me all along.

@MercysMom

I have to always laugh at my closest friends fav saying (who had 1 child & then married late in life & had another) her favorite saying is: "I made a great date not so much a wife!"

She he loves her children (a wonderful mom) & career but not so much married life - answering to someone else after many years as a single mom/woman.

😉

Desertdi · ‎03-13-2010

I wouldn't change anything.

Of course, my mother had very different ideas about what I "should have done"...................

♥Surface of the Sun♥

Snowpuppy · ‎03-09-2010

I make a lousy, traditional, cookie cutter, straight outta a 1950's LHJ magazine housewife!

Don't sell yourself short. You may actually be the dream woman of a man who didn't read that same magazine!

happycat · ‎09-18-2010

Yes, @house_cat, I certainly do. And I think it is normal. I also wonder about things that happened in my life that I had no control over and wonder how things would have been had they not happened. And then, I pour a drink. Not really. Really, I just thank God that I have lived thru it all