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quiltingdragon

What Really Matters - LJ Idol Week 2

Feb 13, 2022 21:17

I turned forty last month.

The last year has been a sea change for me. I quit my demanding job to cut down stress, only to accept a raise to stay another year. I ended or scaled back several 25+ year friendships, realizing that I was a much better friend to them than they were to me. I adopted a cat. I took over the title of my childhood home, and ( Read more... )

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tonithegreat February 14 2022, 04:27:54 UTC

Cheers to a lovely answer to the prompt with this and to very efficiently turning around a nice meaty entry!

quiltingdragon February 23 2022, 16:43:32 UTC

Thank you!

baxaphobia February 14 2022, 04:42:19 UTC

A lot of this resonates with me. Your thoughts and what you've been doing in life over the past few years seems to mirror a lot of things I've been trying to do. I think a lot of people have done a lot of reflecting over the past couple of years and not dealing with unnecessary crap is part of that. Good luck finding things that matter!

quiltingdragon February 23 2022, 16:44:40 UTC

What a good way to put it. "Not dealing with unnecessary crap" is what I need to write in the front of my planner. Good luck to you too on this journey. Not easy, but so worth it.

simplyn2deep February 14 2022, 14:11:04 UTC

Happy 40th! I'll be 40 in September and seem to be going on this same journey...though I always seem second guess a lot of my decisions and go back to what once was because its comfortable and I know it because I had been doing it for so long.

quiltingdragon February 23 2022, 16:45:50 UTC

Thanks! I secondguess myself so much too. Esp with friendships. One of the people I'd cut off had a family crisis, and the other requested that I call a temporary truce to support the other. We'll see how that goes.

viagra February 15 2022, 14:25:47 UTC

I just turned 37 and I'm feeling a lot of the same things - this was a good, thoughtful, inspirational piece. Thank you :)

quiltingdragon February 23 2022, 16:47:44 UTC

Thanks! I think I would have hit this feeling a few years earlier but I lost my mom at 34 and it took me a few years to get back to an emotional place where I could work on myself instead of just surviving.

adoptedwriter February 15 2022, 15:51:15 UTC

Awesome! Yay for kitties!

quiltingdragon February 23 2022, 16:46:25 UTC

This one vastly prefers my father, much to his annoyance!