All through young life, your time is your own.
You get to places and play out, do school work, having fun along the way.
Pretty normal for all I’d wager.
Come early to late twenties, still having fun but work takes a chunk out of your time, still free to enjoy life at weekends and evenings, where working life permits.
Mid to late thirties, it all starts to change!
Now you’ve got, “Responsibilities” and the like.
A home, small family, work, etc.
Your free time is dwindling. The odd weekend, the odd free evening is boxed in between working, jobs like a droid and the family.
This is ok, can live with it, won’t be forever will it?
Then into your forties.
The family get older and do their own thing, the house is not so draining anymore, options will open up for you again, to actually take a few hours after work or at weekends, to do something you enjoy?
No it won’t.
It’ll be a drain on your time, the older you get, the more you’ll have to graft, people change with the times.
In your younger days, you took care of yourself.
You were the priority, for eating, earning, enjoying, etc.
This is simply how it was, you were responsible for yourself and perhaps the nippers when they were young.
Now?
A complete joke!
No one seems capable of going on their journey of life, with independence.
No more are you only responsible for yourself, you continue to have your time taken up by other stuff.
Little jobs in the house, other people, yet more workload, etc.
I often ask people (silently to myself of course) when they ask things of me, how did you actually manage things before I was here to do them for you?
Did you just sit in a box, quietly, not saying or doing anything until I came along?
This wasn’t an option for me, I hated having to rely on others or work, I was brought up to get on by myself where-ever possible.
It seems this is now a thing of the past?