On Dec 13, 2022, at 6:42 PM, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist 
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 5:31 PM Alaric Snell-Pym via Silklist 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

I am fighting burnout right now. Work is rewarding, a lot of pressure
has been taken off me at home with the death of my mother-in-law (who we
were looking after in her terminal decline, so the person she used to be
was already gone a while previously)

I have experienced this twice already, with my father and father in law. I 
expect to have to go through this at least twice more in the near future. I 
once remarked to a friend that this feels like the last rite of passage into 
"adulthood". It sucks, but is inevitable. So it goes. Hang in there.


Sort of getting into a similar situation with ailing parents here in India. 
Been thinking of ways to transition into this phase by either moving them to 
the US or me moving here for a while.


and with my youngest child now at a
school she can walk to so I don't need to do school runs

In the US a statement like this would get you jailed, very likely. What a 
strange society that has evolved into.


Curious why you say so. Certainly not a general state of things in the US. Our 
school district in Milpitas, California has the concept of “safe routes” which 
kids are encouraged to take to walk / bike to school. Bunch of kids do. Most 
kids, being last minute birds to wake up, opt to be dropped off. But the option 
is there.

—
VaibhaV

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