I've been totally stressed to my maximum this week. All of my irrational fears are swelling as my children run about the world and I have to get in an airplane several times over the next month.
Any readers I've managed to glean know that my daughter is living in a foreign country while attending veterinarian school. Tomorrow my baby leaves to backpack across Europe. He'll fly six times, use the rail pass innumerable times and rent a car to tour Bavaria & the Swiss Alps. Oldest boy is flying to Orlando and then Seattle for his job while attempting to close on a new house and plan a wedding for September. I'm driving to Orlando, flying to Indiana and then driving to Iowa and flying again to NYC. I barely get to sleep at night as every horror imaginable dances through my thoughts.
Last night, as I tossed and turned, Flyboy hubby said to me, "Tonight there is a mother somewhere tossing and turning because her eighteen year old son is on the front lines in Iraq. Our son is going on vacation." That man knows how to put things in perspective.
May 25, 2008
Perspective
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Yes, but sometimes perspective still doesn't quite work, does it?
Exactly! As you'll see my reply comes at 3 AM because Bookboy hasn't emailed from Madrid to let his suffering mother know that he's safe :-(
Wow, that really does put things into perspective. It is certainly normal and okay to be worried about one's children, but on top of that I hope you are very proud as your children sound like just the kind of adventurous and courageous souls who are and will continue to make a big difference in this world. We need more people out there willing to take risks both with their chosen professions and it the way they choose to embrace life. Good for them. And once they are all back safe and sound they will no doubt have many wonderful stories to share with you.
Carl ... what is it about you men that you are so able to keep things in perspective? You, like my Flyboy, are correct. I'm very proud and excited to hear their stories knowing they've chosen to be much braver than their mother;-)
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