This really resonated with the part of me that sometimes wants to give in to a feeling of isolation…

Oct 11, 2016

it brought me to tears over the simplest canceled plans; it made me feel like I didn’t have a support group in San Francisco; it highlighted that I was hundreds of miles away from my tribe in Seattle. I hated who I was because I felt needy, desperate, alone and jealous during the time all of my best friends were getting engaged, married and pregnant. I genuinely celebrated their love and happiness, yet every announcement seemed like a personal reminder of how I had failed and was failing.

I’m Leaving My 6-Figure San Francisco Startup Career to Sell Ice Cream on a Beach

Jeanna Barrett

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This really resonated with the part of me that sometimes wants to give in to a feeling of isolation and being cut off from deep connections when you live so far from ‘home’. When this happens, all I need is a quick reminder that part of the reason I left, was in order to get away from all the engagments, marriages and pregnancies that I knew were imminent. Because that is not the path I choose for my life right now.

I also like to remember that when I do choose to go down that road and join nature’s circus of procreation, when it is right for me and not out of fear that I ‘might’ end up alone for whatever socially warped reason, I will be damn grateful for every hour of blissful peace I spent on my own, making my own choices and being responsible for no-one but myself.