Thursday, February 5, 2009
it started out well
I am wondering if this sense of "inertia", this sense of the world just passing by is a common one for women who are home with kids, or homemakers in general. Life moves at a slower pace when you are home with kids, or just home and I compare myself with my friends who have paying jobs and are always busy, always tired, always trying to catch up. Life at home is lived more inwardly. I find myself trying to create excitement for myself-be it imaginary or real. I do feel often feel like Dorothy caught up in the cyclone, watching helplessly as the world moves around her outside. And I know it's important work-this raising of people, this keeping of the home-but and there always is a but, I feel restless and bored and separated from something that is elusive. I have been on both sides of the fence and I know that this feeling doesn't disappear just because one has a job to go to and from everyday. Sometimes it's worse. Maybe it's our times, our feeling that we are "entitled" to a rich, successful and happy life. L.P's right-we aren't, we aren't entitled to a bloody thing, not even our misery.
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this post was so complete, you could tie a bow around it and send it to any homing mama out there. it's tough, in our society, to do this job which is so greatly needed and in many cases, chosen over other jobs, but not get payed for it. it is one of our society's greatest injustices. devoted mothers go pretty much unrecognized. as do working mothers who need to choose all the time between being there for important events in their children's lives and maintaining a good standing in the work place.
any way you cut it, it seems that mothers could always be doing more and are always unervalued in a money obsessed society.
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