NEW CHALLENGES TO CONQUER
Summer is over and fall is here. My daughter is now 17 yrs old and growing up to be an amazing young lady. I've spent most of those years raising my daughter and I found it easy to forget about myself and my own needs. Now suddenly I am facing the fact that my daughter will be going to college in a couple of years and I will be left with.....well me. I know I still have my career and yes I am what is known as workaholic. It is easy for me to consume myself with work and raising my daughter. However, what happens after my daughter starts having her own life? Since I have spent so much of my time being a single parent I now face a situation where I will be an empty nest. Not only an empty nest but a single empty nest. I don't make a lot of time to socialize. I suppose this is partially because I am busy but also because it is easy to live on my own and not have to introduce someone into my OCD/Tourette life. Yet there is still a part of me that wants to have someone special to share things with.
The problem is since I am now older and more set in my ways I am not sure how to even start to socialize. Nevertheless, begin a social life and then have to explain my chemical imbalances with someone new. This lead me to another thought. How does one make polite conversation with others? I have never really mastered the art of polite superficial conversation. I am more apt to be comfortable in a discussion about chemical imbalances and treatments. I spend most of my days in a professional manner. So it looks like I have some new challenges to conquer.
