I dont think it's age or marriage, because I am decidedly NOT married and I know exactly what you mean. I think it's monotony. You get into this routine as you settle down a bit and it starts to monopolize your whole life. I have to get up and go to work because I have bills to pay, I have to get up and feed the kids and go to the store to buy food to feed the kids.... It's so cyclical that you start to feel like a cog in a machine and not the conductor any more.
You have to do something that you normally wouldnt. This past summer, a couple of friends and I got dressed up, I'm talking heels, dress, jheri-rigged victory rolls and went to a posh restaurant. And then we went bowling in a bowling alley that didnt have any lights on in the ladie's room, and it was probably a mercy. I felt good, better than I had in a long time because it was a connection to my old life and out of character for my current life. Go to a store that you've driven by a hundred times and never went in. It's the feeling of adventure that you miss, because you've had so many experiences. But you havent had them all. I'm not saying that you have to drive through a crack neighborhood with John Denver on the radio (unless you're me, which you clearly aren't...and besides, I moved into that neighborhood, haha) but do something that reconnects you with the unknown.
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and i have no idea how to get out of it.
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