The Dilemma

I know you all have a wealth of experience and great insights that could benefit others. Please consider sharing your wisdom with the rest of us.

Without further explanation, I would like to know how you would respond to the following letter. I will share the author's response and my own later, but I would like to hear your answers. Add your advice to the comments section below: 

Dear Carolyn: 

Sometimes I think I’d like someone to rescue me from my life — someone to make it so I don’t have to work anymore, and I just sit back and not think about anything serious or responsible.

I know this comes from having always been the “responsible” one, and it’s gotten to the point where I’d love to make some very significant life changes, but I find myself unable to do so because of what seem like insurmountable obstacles. I’d love a job in a slightly different field, but I get paid a lot where I am, and I would have to take a pay cut if I went anywhere else, plus I would probably need more education, which I can’t afford and don’t have time for.

I would also love to end my marriage and move back to the part of the world I’m from, but I haven’t been able to figure how to manage either of those things.

How does one balance out desire and reality to cobble a life that feels right? Or maybe there is no real right, and we’re all just fumbling around looking for greener pastures that don’t exist. — Wishing for Greener Grass

The original letter was addressed to Carolyn Hax. You can find the article here.

I look forward to your answers.