So I am still thinking about literacy. Chris and I have been taking steps to gain further knowledge about our bodies, nutrition and finances. But, just when I think I may be starting to grasp some of these things that I deem to be the literacies of adulthood, I am confronted by even more literacies of adulthood that I don't possess. Like cars for example. I just can't seem to gain a working and competent knowledge of cars. There was an incident a few weeks ago where Chris was driving and the oil light came on and he had to add more oil. I thought that some big, catastrophic disaster was about to occur with this car, my first car, only to find out after two hours at the mechanic today that things are just fine and I should get in the habit of checking and topping off my oil in between my 3000 mile oil changes.
Seriously!?!
How did I make it to 27 having never heard of this perfectly normal thing to do.
Sometimes I feel like I encouter situations in my adult life and I get this eerie feeling that I have been living under a rock for a few years and have missed the learning or info on the subject at hand. I come out from under my rock dwelling into a fog of confusion and begin to doubt my compitency to function as an adult. But alas, I realize that I haven't been gone anywhere, I have been right here, struggling through all of the new learning of this phase of life and my confidence is renewed because, hey, I have made it this far after all, I may as well just go a little further. I have heard it said that the twenties are the MOST DIFFICULT time of life in terms of the learning curve being VERY steep. Steep it is indeed. But, I am also certain that it will have been worth all the work, struggling, pondering, questioning and doubting for the strength and courage that it has grown and is growing in me.
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