Thinking My Way Out Of Stuck

LIFE AFTER DOWNSIZING

A thought piece

Ever since we downsized from homeowner to renter, life feels fuzzy, albeit, transient.

I spend my days stuck, as if in an airport terminal waiting for a connecting flight that never arrives.—Just sitting and waiting for what comes next. Whatever next is.

So many questions.

Where will we live? North or south? In a community of “active” seniors, or a standalone place of our own? An unlikely prospect due to the astronomical price shift in the housing market thanks to COVID.

Still, questions persist about our future domicile.

Should we live in a busy townhouse community where we have to dress up every time we walk out the door? Or in a secluded neighborhood where we can get the mail in our underwear?

In our current townhouse rental, privacy is a luxury. I can’t walk around in my underwear because our windows face our neighbor’s windows. Forget about walking around naked. That’s on my bucket list, along with rebooting my writing that has stagnated since we downsized.

In this temporary place, we call home, my writing, once a passion, has gone with all the stuff we threw away. But it’s not the stuff I miss.

In my head, I know that passion is contented bliss, but in my heart, it’s passive retrospect.

I don’t know why my heart has lost its passion.

Maybe the word “rent” connotes a temporary state of place and mind, causing an emotional disconnect and an inert way of thinking.

Maybe it instills a lack of motivation and inertia is the new status quo. Unless inertia is changeable, like the weather.

I’ll ask a TV Meteorologist. Hey, you, on my TV. How do I lift my head out of this forever fog?

*Crickets*

TV isn’t the answer to everything.

*Click*

Perhaps motivation is a learned discipline.–- But, how do you change a static state of mind in a fluid setting?

How do you change the renter mindset that’s anxious and yet carefree?

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