"Gypsy Soul" or "Old Fashioned"

They are the ones that are always motivated. They work in a sawmill for 30 years. They drive the same delivery truck their whole life. They retire from a small office where they ran the same reports every month, replaced toner cartridges every week and drank coffee from the same cup every day, throughout their entire career.

I am not one of them.

There have been many times in my life that I thought perhaps I was born in the wrong century. Perhaps I listened to the Marshall Tucker Band too much growing up or maybe it's hereditary... Either way, often times I feel I would have been better suited being a cowboy on the open range or perhaps some sort of traveling tradesman, roaming between frontier towns fixing and developing new machines and systems to make life easier on people.

It's not just my gypsy soul that makes me think this. I'm very old-fashioned. It's seems more and more every day I become less and less tolerant of the way society is going. I would love to have experienced a time when men were men and ladies were ladies. A time when your daughter or niece had a decent chance of growing up properly. Sure there were things to worry about back then, and perhaps I'm basing this all on a distorted view from Hollywood, but some part of me feels it MUST have been easier to raise a child correctly without the internet, cell phones, television and radio. The world is a sick place. There have always been sick people. It just seems that it's easier for them to recruit these days...

Then there's the fact that I love seeing ladies wearing bonnets. Strange, I know, but yet another reason I think I was born 150 years too late.