Money vs. Passion
Passion can pay the bills, but your money mindset has to change.
In seven-ish months I’ll be 40. An age that feels impossible even as I watch it approach.
Slow, steady, day by day — like an old horror movie, where the bad guy just keeps coming no matter how fast the frantic teenage girl scrambles. Scary indeed.
I have friends my age who are sending their kids to college. I know people that are talking about starting a “second career,” and I even know a few privileged individuals that have cashed in and are beginning an “early retirement,” with a heavy focus on travel, of course.
Meanwhile, I’m over here childless (by absolute choice), working a job that is very much not a career, and although my partner and I aren’t necessarily scraping by, there isn’t much time or nearly enough saved for more than a long weekend trip once or twice a year.
None of this used to bother me, but lately, it’s been gnawing at me. This underlying feeling that somehow my life has less meaning because I haven’t done things the way traditional society approves. Although, the 13-year-old who makes a million dollars a year dancing to fifteen-second music clips isn’t “traditional” either, and no one blinks an eye at that.
And that is what it comes down to. Money.
