Posted by corafree on March 27, 2005, at 16:01:45
In reply to Re: At What Price Security?, posted by sunny10 on March 26, 2005, at 8:50:27
sunny10, Susan 47:
Hi friends!
Well ya' know, this place is 55+; the place where the manufactured home is, is a 55+ park. Where I live now, well couldn't be much closer to a huge university, people from all around the world, unique shops, bookstores, anything you can think of, you'd find nearby.
I've been thinking about hunger.
Not the hunger for food, but the hunger for changes and risks.
I live surrounded by people hungry for knowledge, hungry for meeting/learning new/different people, discussing controversial issues, science, theology, ... hungry for 'moving w/ life' in all it's directions!
I wonder, do these people that live in 55+ manufactured home parks still have that hunger and shut it off or stop dreaming, or maybe have some satisfied it for their life, or have some of them pitifully given up and lost that 'good' hunger?
To be among people like the latter (if that is what they are there, or do there, or feel there), would be like living death to me.
I thrive on hunger - education, risk, controversy, different cultures, churches of every faith, gifted persons, dreamers, and searchers.
I certainly have not met a person to spend 'I've lived my life to the fullest', times, with.
It is scaring me - the 55+ thing is scaring me.
I'm not done (despite my mental health probs'), I'm just not done! I don't want to go out in a blaze of glory as much as I don't want to go out unnoticed.
I know, what do I expect you guys to say; I've got a real HEAVY decision to make, and it could turn out terrible as easily as wonderful. I'm praying.
Thing is, I believe my mother will sell where I now live whether I do or do not want to stay. I don't think it is an option.
I may give up my comfort to stay 'alive' alive!
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