Comments on: Death by Suburb http://www.occams-razor.info/2007/06/death_by_suburb.html Insightful essays on subjects trivial and profound Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Aubrey http://www.occams-razor.info/2007/06/death_by_suburb.html/comment-page-1#comment-417 Aubrey Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:23:25 +0000 http://potomactavern.org/wordpress/?p=681#comment-417 Thank you so much for this entry. I think you may have caused me to have an epiphany. I have been so frustrated that I cannot seem to replicate the life my parents led. They had a house in the suburbs on one income. My mom stayed home with us kids. Here I am, 28 years old, with a higher degree than my father and a very respectable job. Yet, I have no children, I live in an apartment, and I'm just making ends meet on two incomes. I have two years to get to where my mother was when she started our family. There's no way I'm going to make it. It is becoming apparent to me that I may never have that life. It makes me feel like a failure. It makes me want to throw my hands up in despair. Until I read what you wrote, and realized maybe the problem isn't me. Maybe the problem is my expectations being out of date with the modern world. Maybe I should feel proud that I haven't decided to run my body and the environment into the ground trying to chase that rainbow. Just maybe :). Thank you so much for this entry. I think you may have caused me to have an epiphany.

I have been so frustrated that I cannot seem to replicate the life my parents led. They had a house in the suburbs on one income. My mom stayed home with us kids.

Here I am, 28 years old, with a higher degree than my father and a very respectable job. Yet, I have no children, I live in an apartment, and I’m just making ends meet on two incomes. I have two years to get to where my mother was when she started our family. There’s no way I’m going to make it. It is becoming apparent to me that I may never have that life. It makes me feel like a failure. It makes me want to throw my hands up in despair.

Until I read what you wrote, and realized maybe the problem isn’t me. Maybe the problem is my expectations being out of date with the modern world. Maybe I should feel proud that I haven’t decided to run my body and the environment into the ground trying to chase that rainbow.

Just maybe :) .

]]> By: Matt http://www.occams-razor.info/2007/06/death_by_suburb.html/comment-page-1#comment-416 Matt Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:44:54 +0000 http://potomactavern.org/wordpress/?p=681#comment-416 Another excellent article. I'm at TechEd 2007 in orlando. I needed a break from all the technogeek conversations and this article did the trick. :) Another excellent article. I’m at TechEd 2007 in orlando. I needed a break from all the technogeek conversations and this article did the trick. :)

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