Contemplating Life Changes Mugs

"This rush-rush life is getting old. Sometimes, I think about moving back to the land where I way born. What do you think, Baldo? What would you miss the most?"

The fate of the emigrant

'For your information, I am engaging the energy of change and complexity to create the future I desire.'

"Why bother?"

I figured out how we can pay for the kids' college tuitions. Do tell. I'm going to leave for a year of self-discovery, which I will chronicle in a best-selling memoir. Oh, but

"Your mother and I want to make your 21st birthday a moving experience. We'll help you pack."

Missing my hair.

'Chicken soup for dummies who don't sweat the small stuff.'

'I can change! I swear!'

I was starting a new chapter in my life and I tripped over a footnote.

"Hon, I'm taking your advice and starting a new chapter."

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."

Doubt or Certainy

'So push has come to shove...'

'Guess what! I got my act together! And this is it!'

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

"Just think of all the cigarettes I could have smoked."

"Just accept it, Frank. You're a bald eagle."

Women

PastFuture.

Taylor, I've decided to sack you. I hope this doesn't affect our marriage in any way.

"Just be happy you're getting in, worry about your hair later."

"Hello, I'm the bluebird of quiet resignation."

"Yesterday we're caterpillars, today this. Can't wait to see what's next."

"To tell you the truth, I never thought downward mobility would be so, well, downward."

Made It! Without getting one tattoo.

Metaphors.

"Even when this drought is over, things will never be the same."

"I just wish I hadn't spent most of my life reading the comments below online news articles"

'Rock of Ages'

"Yes, many of us have had life changes since you switched focus to Environmental Law."

'You're trying to reinvent yourself, aren't you?'

Arnold had not been much of a saint in his life and now he paid the price.

"Wait, it's Thursday? I thought it was Tuesday! The first day of the rest of my life was supposed to be Wednesday!!"

"I'm getting old. My friends are starting to have kids on purpose."