Hello, dear lovely readers.
I hope this newsletter finds you well and happy? It’s a bit of a special (if not slightly longer) one. But there’s a good reason for that:
Tomorrow I turn 61.
I’m really gobsmacked I’ve got to this age. In my earlier years, I never really thought of myself being this age. I mean, I hoped I’d still be alive, but I never gave much thought to what I’d be doing.
So here I am. What did I think I’d be doing? I don’t really know, if I’m honest. I mean, in your 20’s, you don’t sit back and think “I wonder what I’ll be like when I’m in my sixties”. It just didn’t cross my radar.
Another thing to ask myself is – have I achieved all that I thought I’d achieve by this age? Again, never gave it much thought. But my knee jerk reaction would be – nowhere near.
And although that can be viewed very much as a negative, I take it as a positive.
I mean, yes I can wallow in thinking all the things I failed to achieve – be a journalist, travelling and living abroad – but I have achieved a lot of what I wanted. Living in Cheshire was a big one for me, which I achieved in 1996.
And I wanted to live in Cheshire for, yes, all the glossy lifestyle pictures I saw, but also knowing if we had a family, the quality of life we might have. We had two girls, and yes, although they’d disagree with me, they both had a really good education which I consider to be on a par to private education.
So, I can tick off a couple of long term goals, but what about the others?
To read what goals/achievements I’ve achieved, read on here…
