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Do theoreticians have lives? | 7 comments

[new] priorities and compromise (Avg. Score: none / Raters: 0) (#1)
by Anonymous Stranger on Tue Nov 11th, 2003 at 09:51:07 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME

Reaching that stage in life where even the queer community and once-staunch anti-nuclear family folk I know are pairing up and settling down, I am ever more aware of the disconnect between those who are following traditional patterns of family and those who remain fiercely independent, and hence alone.

In college, a number of my friends promised that down the road a bit we'd remain a group to look out for each other. Maybe adopt children into these groups, raising new family structures from the broken foundations our parents displayed for us and from the glorified models of perfection our government demanded of us. Our politics, our production, our professions followed, at least for a bit, this hypothetical trajectory.

But in the last five years I've seen much of that come undone. Loneliness gave way to couplings. Family and societal pressure spilt same-sex relationships for heterosexual ones. Ill parents and family members altered the courses of profession, geographical direction, and politics in the cases of those who found the need to reconnect (with churches and communities as well as families) "before it was too late." And then there is what money moves many to do. Can't work at a not-for-profit making $30,000 a year with three kids at home. Can't get arrested in DC as the boss, the husband, the sick mother wouldn't approve. Can't drop out and start that commune in the woods if one needs money to support a sick brother.

Can leave one rather alone not to follow suit, I'm afraid.

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