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Being Less Tiring

Deborah Kristina
3 min readApr 14, 2022

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I get the impression that you want me to realize that having another half is overrated.

Before anyone appears in my life, I have thought intensely about going abroad again.

At least, for the time being, I want to do something enjoyable.

I see nothing wrong with spending time with children if one has them. I think it’s a great way to spend one’s portion of life.

I could see myself as a stay-at-home mother, or if the child asks for something, I would expect to work to earn some money to get whatever they ask. Floating around in the world is not constantly a pleasurable thing to do.

Yes, I get to observe people and be more mobile on my own, but it does get old after a while.

I ideally perceive being with another half as being less tiring. Of course, you can dispute this and tell me that I don’t know what I’m talking about at all as I have no experience in this arena.

There is no comparison between you and me. There is also nothing wrong with stability. At least you haven’t lived your life as aimlessly as me.

Your life has been with purpose.

You were motivated to work in high school.

You decided to join the military and then to university in order to make something of yourself, and for

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Deborah Kristina
Deborah Kristina

Written by Deborah Kristina

Author of ‘A Girl All Alone Somewhere in the World’, ‘Confessions and Thoughts of a Girl in Turkey’, ‘From Just a Girl Grown Up in America’. (Amazon.com)

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