Life is a Buffet, not a Cabaret …
Posted by Rick - 27/06/05 at 05:06:17 amPart of the reason I came back to the Washington, DC area 10 years ago was to be closer to my father. Neither of us was getting any younger, and for the most part he was alone. It didn’t hurt my rationalisations that I hated Los Angeles—and after mudslides, fires, Rodney King, O.J. Simpson, race riots, and a close-up view of one of the biggest earthquakes recorded in southern California history, who wouldn’t? Whatever the reason, I felt a need for change and decided to return to DC to try something else.
I have been thinking about all of this lately because after the death of my dad last year I realised that there wasn’t much left tying me to the area. At least nothing that would make dealing with rude people, crowded streets and subways, horrible traffic, smog, expensive housing, and the high cost of living worth it. Or maybe it took the death of my father (or my mother for that matter) to make me realise that life really is too short—for all we know, there really is only one ride on this big blue marble—and that one should treat life as a giant buffet and not like a MRE.
Don’t get me wrong. I love so many of the people I know in this area. In addition to meeting my wonderful and extremely supportive wife, Sarah, I have met some of the truest and dearest friends I could ever hope to know. DC has always been home. But now that my dad is gone, and the house I grew up in is inhabited by strangers, why not see someplace else?
With that in mind, this past weekend, Sarah and I officially put our house up for sale. We plan to move to Vermont by the end of the summer, and start our search for land on which to build our new home… and try something new.
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