Been thinking again about work/life balance.
Being the mother of three demanding children takes up a lot of time. I like to eat proper food (cooked from scratch, naturally), my husband has a very demanding, long houred job, my house is a bit of a wreck (after 3 years the neighbours must think I chose those curtains), I live a long way from everywhere (part-time unpaid taxi job). Where in all of this does it leave time for the ‘work’?
My solution, as I have probably said before, is to fit it in here and there and everywhere that I can – this may seem (to my family) like I am doing it all the time – but the reality is that it all adds up to very little but overviewed looks like an obsessive 24hour 7 day a week stint where I never do anything else.
As this is of course a vocation – does that mean it does not equal work as it is (or can be on a good day) enjoyable. I certainly never plan to ever retire – why would you ever do that? My husband is always planning and almost counting the days till his retirement – just making me scream – HOW CAN YOU TALK ABOUT RETIREMENT WHEN I HAVENT EVEN STARTED YET?!
The upshot of this is that work=life and it is not a competition or a balance. It can only be a whole.
(off to do a bit of wallpapering)
