What is the current chapter of your life called?

I was recently asked on Facebook, “What is the current chapter of your life called?"  HUMMM…

Apparently it’s “jet-setter” (but not the wealthy, socialite kind, just the ordinary person who travels to faraway places).  At first when my local banker called me a jet-setter as I was giving a travel alert for my debit card, I was taken aback.  Jet-setter sounded a bit snobby to me.  It sounded better than emptynester which sounds kind of, well, empty, but it sounded somewhat uncomfortable to me.  Do others think of me as some sort of snob because I am lucky enough to travel and then post about it, I wondered?  

Then something happened and I kind of embraced the idea of being a jet-setter (again, not the wealthy, socialite kind).  Connected to the main issue in a way I will soon explain, is a story I overheard about an elderly person who declined further lifesaving treatment because she said, “I haven’t had a very interesting life and have nothing to live for."  I was told that her only two children had already passed away.  Beyond sad, I thought, but not right, I decided.  On the one hand, I could understand the possibility of having little to live for if you had lost all those who you loved, partners and children, parents, siblings and dear friends, especially if you were ill.  What I couldn’t understand was the idea that a whole life could be labelled as being so uninteresting that you wouldn’t want to live.  WHAT!

The past “chapters of my life” have been titled “child” (can’t even remember that chapter), “student”, “wife” (still am), “daughter and sister” (still am, luckily), “lawyer” (yes true, although many of you don’t know that), “mother of young children" (my favorite chapter), “mother of grown-up children” aka “emptynester” (not as much fun), "sex symbol" (no, I made that up to see if you were still reading),  “volunteer”…and now, “jet-setter”.  

Nothing has been perfect and there have been parts that were disappointing (especially the part where I still haven’t lost that last 10 pounds of pregnancy weight gain after 24 years).  BUT, I have to say, it’s never been uninteresting!  
It’s all been very interesting and very gratifying.  Being so blessed to be able to travel to faraway places makes this current chapter of my life so interesting and fun and happy and exciting...and gratifying.  I am thankful and thrilled to be so lucky to see the world with Chad.

So allow me to indulge myself in my GRATIVACATION and I hope you enjoy what I have to say.  

But I have to ask, “What makes your life interesting?"  “What is the current chapter of your life called?"