Sat with an elderly lady tonight, talking about the good old days of being out on the water and catching fish. She was telling me of a time she was out in a small boat with her husband and two children and how the weather turned suddenly on their way in.
She is holding on to the kids trying to make light of it all so as not to pass on the fear, all the while thinking ‘just get us back to shore’. She paused. “Life changes,” she said. “I can’t get out on the water anymore. You think it is going to stay the same, you think you will always have time, you will always be able to do things, but you can’t, time moves on, everything changes.”
I think that was the realisation for me over the past twelve months. Seriously what was I doing with my life. I left the UK nearly five years ago to do things differently, and yet had found myself on that treadmill again, in that rut. Something had to change.
A wise friend once said to me change comes about through choice, chance or chaos, the change for me to get on the road and exploring again was definitely a choice, as was heading straight for chaos otherwise!
Is there part of your life that needs a change? Are you going to make a choice or leave it up to the chance or wait till chaos sets in….
