1 post tagged “ambition”

I haven't posted for eons.

That's what happens when you suddenly start something new. The old things get left behind.

It is a lot like a relationship. You meet, fall in love, can't leave each other alone and no one wants to say goodbye on the phone. All you want to do is snuggle up and watch the flames of your log fire of love. Tea and crumpets anyone?

Do you remember that feeling?

God Knows I do.

Then the days turn into months and the months into years and before you know it you are watching Simon Cowell every night and a pint of beer and a night on the town aren't so appealing anymore.

You develop opinions on curtains and soft furnishings and a wave of apathy rolls over you if anyone mentions anything that isn't related to nesting.

Then come the babies and total obsession.
That's 5 years in a muddy bubble of spew, poo and insomnia.

Gradually you emerge.
Greyer, poorer and weary.

Life isn't so appealing now and there isn't much to do  that you haven't already done. Or so it seems.

Then you gradually find yourself again. Heart beats faster. Head feels stronger and ambition reasserts itself.

That's when you realise that you are still part of the rat race and the dreaded mid life crisis hits.

Some of us start to stray. Women in particular are looking for the rose covered cottage and that "dream hunk" who will shower them with flowers and love. Men just want a great pair of pins, a functional prostate and pneumatic tits.

Twas ever thus.

But if you don't fancy a $100 meander down the erotic encounters personal ads what do you do?
You look in the mirror. Gird your ever depleted loins and enagage in something new and invigorating.

You can be a parachute instructor or a horse wrangler; a fire appliance salesman or an arms dealer; you may like the idea of starting as a chocolatier or an alternative therapist. No matter. The trick is to start as you mean to go on and to hell with Ben and the Federal reserve; to hell with Bush, Blair, Obama and Brown; to hell with the news and the things you can never change; to hell with all the waste and wonder of the earlier years. Now is your time!

This is the era of re-invention and acting locally to effect globally.

You are the key to it all.

Whatever you want to do get on with it before the man with the sythe comes  knocking and you wonder what you have been doing for the past 70 years.

Don't bleat about what might have been.
Just do it.

Life is for living.
So love it, live it, sod it!

We all end up the same way. It is what you do whilst you are here that counts.

Have a nice day!