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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 2527877" data-attributes="member: 2013">Hey, I'm living my dream.Back when I was in high school, I used to wish I could just wake up, roll over, and see my wife, kiss my kids goodbye, and go to work.  All of the "big, important decisions" in my life (who am I going to marry?  what will I major in?  what will my career be?) would be made and I wouldn't have to go through the crap involved in dating, the silliness inherent in college, and the stress of finding a job.And you know what?  I'm married, I have three beautiful children, a nice job (that I alternately love and hate, but it pays the bills), and in another two or three weeks, no mortgage (and we're going to start shopping for an investment "second home" in a few months).  All of life's "sticky decisions" are for the most part behind me.  Stress-wise, with the mortgage finally going bye-bye, I'm at almost zero except for the usual parent-worrying that my kids will grow up to be good people.I'm living my dream.  And I'm not even thirty - I have a lot of good years of living ahead of me.  My wife and I have a great relationship (we've been married five years and have had exactly one argument/fight, which was over in about 15 minutes).  I have a blast playing with my kids and they love me (as I tell them every day and they tell me nearly as often).  It's great to have kids - I can go to the park and play on the swings and the slides with them... and nobody looks at me like I'm some sort of pervert.  It's fun reading with them, learning with them, and seeing life through their eyes.Remembering all that keeps me going easy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Am I perfect?  No.  Do I have all the things I wish I did?  No.  But I have learned to be satisfied with what I do have, whether it's just a little (as it was when my wife and I first got married and all we had was basically a bed, a junkheap of a car, my wife's collection of dishes & silverware, and my collection of D&D books) or a lot (we have more stuff than I think is good for us right now, honestly... I'm trying to thin rather than collect more) ... and learning to do that goes a long way.--The Sigil</blockquote>

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