A DREAM RENEWED...

Will wonders never cease. My dream of chucking it all and starting anew has not been completed dashed!

My life's partner has admitted the dream is tempting and has not thrown out the baby with the bath water. Although cautious, he doesn't want to continue the mindless road being traveling in our thankless jobs and monotonous lives, but now is considering the alternative of pursuing a last dream.

In fact, this idea would make a very promising TV series or even a wide-open premise for a book -- that is: two married baby boomers reaching the stage of their lives where they must determine their future, looking at the harsh reality of the lives as victims of downsizing, lost pensions, reduced incomes, and a future without hope of comfortable financial retirement and leisure. The joke of expiring under the yellow reflection of the golden arches, or run down by the shopper stampede to the blue light special is, in all actuality, what they are facing, since there isn't any financial nest egg except the equity left after selling their handyman special family home and it's furnishing.

However, with children raised and moved away, the dream to sell it all, and live one last hurrah, is a wonderful alternative to the conservative certainty of their last years together lived in frugality and boredom.

Here's the plot:

The boomers sell everything, buy a new, small SUV and set off cross country for a month-long adventure of a lifetime. Starting from New Jersey, the couple leisurely make their way to Seattle, WA, to meet their final destiny. Imagine the subplots that can develop -- the people that they meet along the way, the stories and lives they experience, as the criss cross the country through cities, small towns, mountains, deserts, national parks, eventually arriving at their final destination to finish off their once dead-end lives, with enough memories from their travels to carry them through their last years with dignity and renewed strength.

Not a bad scenario!! Remember ...

Fairy tales can come true, they can happen to you, if you're young at heart!
- posted by rosemary @ 10:16 AM