TV Inspires II

04.28.2010

Watched an episode of Parenthood and there’s a scene where Adam’s wife comes back from a weekend away where she helped an old friend on the campaign trail. She was explaining to Adam how exciting it was to be back in the workforce and how great she felt, and that she was offered a full-time position as the candidate’s Communications Director and that she really wanted the job.

At that point, Adam said he supported her and that they’d figure out how her schedule would coincide with the kids’ schedule and that they’d have to make a lot of adjustments (especially with the recent diagnosis of their son’s Asberger’s), but that they’d figure it out. As he was pin-pong-ing ideas of how to make it work, you could see the look on his wife’s face grew more and more long and filled with concern because it was a lot of adjustments just so that she could take the job. At the end of the scene, she decides that it just wasn’t the right time to take a job.

I thought I’d cry a river at this point because that’s EXACTLY how I feel about kids as a woman: Do you have kids and give up a career and 18 years later look in the mirror and ask, Where am I and why? Or do you forfeit the kids and run the risk of 18 years going by and regretting your decision looking in the mirror and asking, Where am I and why?

I guess…either way…you’re asking the same questions.