The "Never Will I..." List
When I was in my twenties, I had a list of things I swore I would never do. A lot of my choices stemmed from my studies in college and had a lot to do with feminism. I wasn't militant, or even radical, but I held firm beliefs that I thought I would never change. Then, along came my thirties, and I found myself revisiting my list and realizing much of it didn't speak to me anymore. The list of "Never Will I Ever..." included: 1. Get married 2. Stop being a vegetarian 3. Move to the South 4. Have kids By the time I turned thirty-six, I had checked off more than one "never" prediction on my list. In fact, I was already living items 1-3. I had made a comment in one of my non-fiction classes that in my twenties, I swore I would never get married, and there I was, engaged and getting ready to marry. A student, in her late-fifties, replied, "Welcome to your thirties, hon. It's the time in your life where you do everything you said you wouldn...