On the Brink, No Less

So I am on the move… again.

Today started with an AC falling out the window and smashing onto the concrete.  Fantastic.  No one was hurt, except my ego, and the part of me that likes to think Im tough enough to do everything on my own.   Yet another comical story to tell the grandkids.  Man, I need to write a book about this past year of my life in NYC.

I read an article this morning that somewhat berated the fact that today’s 20-something generation seems to be always moving, never quite settling, going back and forth between different cities, different jobs, traveling, and crashing every once in a while at good ol’ mom and dad’s.

Needless to say, I was slightly offended because this is very much my life right now.  And as I was reading I thought… 

      ”What is so bad about that?”

By no means is my life perfectly stable right now, but am I in the wrong for not immediately tying myself to a job that I dont love, a mortgage that I dont need, and one single city without having explored the rest of the country?   And what is so wrong with going back home for short bits to spend time with my family and re-focus before heading out on new endeavors?  I just don’t quite understand why taking our time as 20-somethings to really decide what we want our life to look like makes us negligent, fearful of “adulthood”, or irresponsible in some manner.

I think my generation was brought up in the face of a lot of materialism and flash… and thus a LOT of personal and national debt.  So perhaps we want to slow that a bit, make different choices, invest in our future happiness and prosperity by making sure we don’t get in over our heads too early on.  

One day of course I want a home thats really a home.  Of course I want a mortgage.  Of course I want stability in my work, my city of residence, my life in general.  But I don’t want to falsely grab at that stuff now thinking that it makes me more “grown-up” and mature.  

I’d like to think that a bit of chaos now is really just an investment in a future that will make me happy, proud, and above all free of regret and anxiety.  

So yeah… I am on the move.  Im not quite anywhere right now, except very present for the crazy adventures life seems to be bringing me.  And I have more than my fair share of fantastic people in my life who love me… so I’d say Im doing just fine.