“Make changes to your life; don’t wear the same roads out, start walking on the new paths” Mehmet Murat Ildan
How true this quote for me, my life and this blog over the past 11 years. I make no excuses for looking back regularly to check the roads I’ve been taking and to think about those to come. I used to be fearful of making the wrong choices. But with age and experience comes a new confidence.
When I look in the mirror I still see myself as a young woman, but increasingly have to look hard to see her. The hair of course helps with this. I abandoned the darker hair a couple of years ago and am now colouring my white and grey hair an ash blond. Or my hair stylist is. It’s only over the past year that I’ve actually paid for this job to be done. I could afford it, but somehow didn’t think it would be worth it. Planning for the wedding, I thought a professional colour would be better. It was and I’m not going back till I decide to go forwards and let it all be white. Not ready for that one yet though.
These last months I’ve enjoyed going back to what was my old job, pre-retirement. But now I find myself ready to move onwards. To take a new path to getting back to doing things for us, we are so busy right now there might be no time for work anyway. Time instead to relearn retirement and do things that have become less usual than they previously were. It occurs to me that you don’t always have to make changes that mean a completely new path. Instead you can review old ones and create something different from the one you had before.
The photo above is taken from our roof terrace in France. We spent Christmas there away from family. A big change for us.
