- I will someday soon hopefully have a newborn, and all their kids are getting close to or already are school age;
- I am single and therefore must work full-time outside the home, they all have husbands or partners and therefore are not required to work full-time outside the home;
- I will no longer be able to focus on getting roles or doing auditions (just when opportunities seem to be finally becoming possible, so those friends will definitely be doing just that) or continuing the work at least in the opera for which I've dedicated my life to for the last 15 years because I can't do everything, and they, having partners to help support their families, have the flexibility to focus on music being their primary vocation.
I'm a single mother by choice, and this is about my journey from wanting a baby of my own, to being the mother of a wonderful little boy.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Struggles
The reality of what I'm trying to accomplish, the way in which I'm trying to change my life - both the blessings and consequences of it all - is starting to hit me. I have always been just shy of being on the same developmental page as the peers in my life. And now several of the good peer friendships I have finally fostered in my singing career feel threatened due to several factors:
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