For all of us, our family is one of the most important pieces in our lives. Nevertheless, sometimes we can’t find or it’s hard find time in our schedule to spend with them.
We’re living in a globalized world, we want all the things now and not for tomorrow. We must work or study all the week and sometimes the weekend too and also we must be there to our family. Find that balance is one of the most difficult things and the reason is that all our time is being used in work and studies. It’s hard find an equilibrium, but is necessary if we want care our health physical and psychological.
But sometimes could happen something different. Be focus on job is something that all the year must do, but what happen when our heart speaks and we want to run to our objective, the thing, the job or the person that we love?
The last question sounds interesting and how can be a perfect example of a person who is able to leave her life in Canada is Gail of the short story “The Jack Randa Hotel”. She left all her life in her country: Her house, her store, etc. The reason was a man, her ex-husband Will. After the relationship with him, he left her for a woman called Sandy, his actual wife. Gail in my opinion was a very strange woman, because who can leave a very normal and quiet life for a man who did not love her? Also, the last night before she landed in Australia, she did herself a makeover and changed all her look, a very weird and not wearable look, according her.
I think that her decision about the trip to Australia and sell her shop just to try to find Will was really insane. She was blind or obsessive with her ex-husband but she shouldn’t travel to another continent, with no enough money and a “love” that didn’t love her. Also she didn’t think in the future and just wanted to wait a magical reaction of Will. I think that she needed some support of her family or some friends, but she didn’t want to receive it and she didn’t tell anything about her trip.
When I was reading this text, I couldn’t find the sense of this. It was hard to read, but I rescued a lection. We cannot act just with the heart but also with the head. If we trying to do our things with a balance –thinking in our family, our job and ourselves of course –Our lives won’t be stressed and we won’t be regret about anything. Gail left everything for a man but If she were a person and not a character, I think she actually regretted about her quick decisions.
When we’re young, we’re passionate, free and don’t think enough in tomorrow. But in the future we must stand with our feet in the floor in think in the consequences of our actions. There is a way to equilibrate our lives, our families and our jobs.
