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Eagle Born to Fly: Finding Life Beyond
Depression by Sharon C. Matthies
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Part 1 - Getting There
The Next Chapter – Detours and Drifting
Graduation from high school has become a big deal these days. Pricey
prom dresses, limos, corsages and expensive pre-prom dinners seem
to have become the norm for celebrating and honouring that dubious
passage from childhood to adulthood. But I can’t remember
such pomp and ceremony at my graduation from grade 13 in 1974. In
fact, I can barely remember it at all. It just wasn’t a big
deal, at least to me. What I do remember is not having a clue where
I was supposed to go from there.
For most of my childhood, all I had ever wanted to be when I grew
up was a mother of many adopted children and a schoolteacher, specifically
a kindergarten teacher. While still living in Picton, I had worked
it all out. My marks were good enough to win at least one scholarship
at graduation. That would get me started on my first year of university.
But after the move to the new school, my marks fell and so did any
chance of winning a scholarship. I didn’t know what to do.
I didn’t even know what my options were, and for some reason,
it didn’t occur to me at the time to find out. And so began
the drifting and detours.
Many years later, while "hot-flashing" my way through
menopause, the inevitable mid-life crisis hit hard. Looking back
at this time of my life, I couldn’t see much in the way of
measurable success. My crisscrossing through life looked more like
aimless drifting and "blowing in the wind" than anything
even remotely meaningful. It took me a few more glances through
that hazy window to my past to learn to relax my definition of success
and allow my mind to wander back down memory lane with a little
more openness to the value of it all.
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