Wow, I’m sneaking up on my 60th birthday this summer. Gasp! Where has the time gone? Even at this age I ask the questions about where I’m at in life and where I’m going. The life I live is not what I dreamed or envisioned in my youth. I know I cannot live in the past nor in the future but every once in a while I venture to those places. The only life I can live is the present. I must always remind myself to stay here.
I’m nomadic at this time in my life. After my divorce and selling the house I drove away from that chapter of my life with all my belongings in the back of a small pickup. It was a freeing moment. Of course, I’ve since added a few items to carry around with me so I may need two truck now. I spend half my month living in hotels and flying with passengers in a long metal tube. For the past year I’ve started carrying a laptop, an iphone and my journal along with my camera wherever I venture. I search out images of the world in front of me, the people or places or objects or patterns I see. This is the present, this is my world.
11 Comments
Chris Klug
Life’s one constant is that is throws you curve balls. There are some advantages to moving around as much as you do, but I bet it can be disconcerting as well.
Monte Stevens
Yes, there are pluses and minuses. I can come home totally exhausted or all pumped up. I find I eat poorly with fast food at the airport or once I’m done for the day and eat too much before going to bed. Always something new to see and experience.
Earl
Monte, I once would of liked a nomadic life but I think it would wear me down now. Things change and someday you could well look back fondly on this your nomadic period.
Monte Stevens
Some days it wears on me. Yet, it is also freeing not to have a home that requires me to maintain: mowing, painting, cleaning, etc. Having so little is what I really enjoy about my life at the present moment.
Earl
Now that you mentioned all the home maintenance things…maybe it would be nice after all. 😉
Monte Stevens
I still have a few. It would be nice if we didn’t have to worry about all the stuff we worry about.
Paul
Excellent post, Monte. Simply excellent. Certainly there are ups and downs to each side. My sister is in her mid-sixties and she said that she loves her drama-free single life.
Monte Stevens
Thanks, Paul. So your sisters single? LOL
When we hear someone talk about carrying baggage, it includes the emotional stuff and stuff. I’m working on both. FInding the things I need to keep and nurture in my life and those things that load me down.
Paul
LOL! Yep, she’s been single for a number of years. Says that she’d have it no other way. We all have so much stuff to work on, don’t we?
Jim | SpinView
Monte, I think this photo and post meld so nicely together is because of the tilted lampshade. Life is never perfect, is it? Glad you used black & white, because life is full of grays. I know, I know, sheesh, stop with the armchair philosophy, right? Anyway, thanks for continuing to post, and sharing both your photography and your thoughts.
Monte Stevens
I love the philosophy talk so bring it on. I throw some it around myself. I almost didn’t post it because of the lamp shade but finally said to heck with it. I also learned a long time ago that life is gray and not just black and white.