Learning to live the simple life

As women, we have fought so for our rights, and rightly so. We have fought to work, to vote, and to be our own individuals without a man over us. I believe in it all, but we lost something in getting all the Rights.

I long for the simple life; I hate the go, go all the time. I want to be home at a decent time and have time for story time and family time. This crazy American dream is not for me.

My goal in life is to work 4 hours a day and then to be able to live and enjoy the world. We were not made just to work. How many years do we spend in buildings and behind computers? How much time do we give to someone else to retire and die?

I can’t be the only one who thinks this way; if we make a stand, we can change.

I will continue to fight for what I want out of life, and it is not to work for someone else and have them control everything about my life and limit my paycheck to just want they can offer; I want to branch out into the unfamiliar territory. I want to learn and grow; I want to stretch myself.

I know in this journey, I might lose people and what looks normal, and everything might be foreign ground, but I’m willing to try and learn along the way.