And I don't have to worry about missing work if they are sick and upset my boss, because I am the boss at home, says Christine with a smile. When I do want to go out, I have to make arrangements for the children and this has to be worked in to someone else s schedule. I feel pretty good about it and find it rewarding to watch my children grow and learn. Sometimes, when things have been unusually stressful, I get resentful of having all the demands on me with no time for myself. Personal liberty is such a subjective topic that each woman interprets it differently, in a way that is unique to her.
Nothing throttles independence like a corporate job and the feeling of being a rat in a maze.
I think it would be neat if I could get on a plane and go to New York, do small negligible things. But I m not in my twenties anymore, when you need those wild lashes into freedom. The restrictions would only be a problem if they went on and on, until I was 45 or 50. Thoreau wrote that independence is the ability to live after your own nature. Motherhood asks new questions of a woman, tests her beliefs and values and, by doing so, offers her the opportunity to know herself more completely.