IF you could do a Word Cloud of your childhood...what would show up LARGE?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

102. Exploration and "We have to move."

I was all about exploration. From creek bottoms and water towers to chemistry and astronomy. Reading, to me, was exploration. I explored life and fell in love with it.

"We have to move." Not because of any dysfunction (I was lucky enough to have decent parents, though much of my exploration was done because both parents worked from when I was a toddler) but because dad built both steam and nuclear power plants. When the one he was working on would be completed, we'd have to move to another location, sometimes half-way across the country. In my 12 years of school we moved four times and I went to school in five different locations around the country.

Which brings me back to exploration. Because we moved so much, I was always exploring.

Now, as an adult, I find it VERY difficult to settle in one place, though I have managed to succeed somehow. I often feel like I've been somewhere too long and that it's time to go.