Nothing in Common :: Personal Narrative Essays

Nothing in Common After 19 years of marriage I decided it was time to try liveliness on my own. It took another year and a half for me to actually do it. I had married my husband when I was barely out of high take aim and promptly gave birth to three sons in rapid succession. I wont go into the details of those 19 years. My husband was a good husband and an authorise father. After about 10 years I realized that we were twain completely different people with absolutely nothing in super acid except for our sons. Moving out was the most devastating and liberating thing that I ever did. I head start set myself up in a small above-garage apartment. I had no furniture except my bed and my computer. My first night there I sat in the empty living room listening to the sirens in downtown Lake Worth, a far claim from the peaceful cocks crowing in Jupiter Farms. The emotions running through me were a unconnected and horrible mix of elation, sorrow, and fear. What had I do ne? After a a few(prenominal) weeks I began to settle in. I had a full-time job with FPL, I saw my sons often, and I discovered the joy of solitude - something I hadnt cognize in a very long while with three boys and their friends unendingly under foot. In the mornings I would have a cup of java on my balcony and then take a walk to the Intercoastal, which was only both blocks from my apartment. My chaotic soul started to slowly heal and slow down to a peaceful pace. In the silence of that apartment I had plenty of fortune to look hard at myself. I took advantage of the silence and undone writing the two books on healthcare and childcare in the new-fangled 1800s that I had barely begun a few years before. Those two books were make a year later. I renewed my love of poetry and spend hours reading the works of Pound, Rich, Atwood, and others. I decided to return to college. I dog-tired four months in my sanctuary over the garage. Then I went home. Everyone conception I would be the same, that life would be the same.