Choices

Ah, to have it all! That was the meme of the 1980s. But I find that life is about choices. Arthur Miller wrote a play about that called "The Price". You want to be rich? Famous? Well, now in my senior years I realize that it requires sacrificing other things (and then, you may not get it, anyway). There's a quote from a movie called "Tombstone" where Doc Holliday is on his deathbed and Wyatt Earp visits and tells him he just wanted a "normal life". Doc, at the end of his, replies: "There's no such thing as a normal life. There's just life."
Sounds rather trite, even tautological, but I think there's great wisdom in it. Even day to day, I wish I could write every day, but that abnormal "life" gets in the way.
Then again, I'm lucky I can write at all, lucky to have a reasonably well-paying job, a home, a yard (which took a lot of my time today). Another choice would be to live in an apartment and have no yard to bother about. Then I'd just have to deal with noisy neighbors.
Choices