Adult(ing)

It's a grey, cold and rainy sort of day today which matches my mood completely. I'm not depressed or in a down mood...Just, well I've been busy adulting and sometimes it leaves me feeling a little...Grey, cold, rainy I guess. Figuratively speaking of course.

Adulting can be difficult, especially in this world of rapid change; Perpetual change, [and not all for the better]...It's made more difficult here in Australia due to governmental instability which means policy changes, although I assume that's the same everywhere.

We've been working towards our future since we got together some 31 years ago as teenagers, we being my wife and I. It hasn't always been an easy path to plot however we are quite strategic thinkers, have the ability to be flexible, adaptable and reinvent our goals as required. As a childless couple we don't have the added complication of needing to consider the wellbeing and future of children however it has still been a difficult journey. Who knows what we'll need in the future...Most of us can't even conclusively determine what we need now! We've had a great life so far in the main, no complaints.

Adulting as I refer to it today, for us at least, means considering our property holdings, investments, health, insurances, risks or liabilities, incomes, expenditure, social and life needs, ageing, and of course the projection of what we may need and want down the track. Death also needs to be considered as well, legal Will's, funerals and the like. It's not necessarily exciting or pleasant, but is necessary.

I almost expect someone to pipe up with "buy a hundred thousand dollars of crypto" but that's not necessarily the only aspect one needs to think about; The financial one. There's a multitude of other things that come into play as above, and it's looking at them all as a complete picture that can be a challenge as one seems to rely on another however not in a linear way. It's sort of like weaving a tapestry, a three dimensional one.

So, I'm feeling...Hmm, I'm feeling like I'm spinning the wheels and not really getting anywhere currently. It will pass for sure, it always does, but not today I think.

I've just gotten off the phone with my accountant/financial adviser and whilst things seem to be on track mostly, there's a few area's in which I have questions. We've been with this firm, and this accountant [the owner], for seventeen years so feel his service to us is valuable obviously however he can really only react to the law, to our projected needs and current position. I think he does his best however today I questioned him on a matter relating to taxation considering that our fiscal year ends on June 30 and wasn't happy with the response which I thought was not conclusive.

This is the thing with this whole scenario...Things rarely go exactly to plan and in this particular case it seems we were way off base with our thinking, expectation or understanding. However it's onward from here, as always, despite my annoyance. That's the thing with life, we don't really have many choices...Give up, accept or move forward are about all there is. We're not the give up or accept type of people...We're the design and create types so it's forward from here.

I'm sure things will work out for the best moving forward, and with a little good fortune steem, and crypto in general, may provide a buffer that at this stage we have not factored in to our scenario. If steem goes well things will look a little different, at least financially. We have purposely left steem out of our plans because it's somewhat an unknown however I'm confident it will have a positive affect on my wife and I down the track.

If you're wondering why I chose the image above...It's because on that particular occasion we were not adulting...It was a mates wedding and he had a photo booth thing there...These are the only three images I can show on the blockchain...Seeing this image reminds me of a time when adulting was the last thing on my mind.

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