Where to Now?

A mate and I were discussing the other day our sheer frustration at an annoying habit the women in our lives have developed and it’s time to stop it.

This habit is when you might go to get yourself a drink or an ice block etc, usually when you are out and about and you ask your girlfriend if she would like one. She will always insist she doesn’t want one but sure enough as soon as you open yours and take your first sip/bite she wants a sip or bite of your treat. Now I usually buy said treat because I want a whole one not one minus a sip/bite.

If only they would understand that I would rather have 1 and a bit (ie finish theirs off) as opposed to one minus a bit. I’m sure this is an age old problem and not one suffered alone but as they say “women you can’t live with them, but you sure as hell can’t live without them”.

So after a few (lets be honest a fair few) things not turning out quite how i wanted over recent times I have decided to get a late start on reshaping things in the new year. This means taking a bit more care of myself and making sure im heading in the right direction for me not for others, some may say this is self centred, others may believe I’ve done this all along. Irrespective its time to look after numero uno.

This new self direction means not just having a good time but looking after future me. This means a new approach to my body and mind and setting targets to achieve. As such Im going forth with inspiration to achieve the most I can for me.

Some things in life seem to be going along fine but then when you look around you realise that life is passing you by, I sometimes think we take the easier option because it is the done thing. Should we not challenge the status quo rather than cruise along uncontrolled like a car aqua-planing towards an unseen yet inevitable wall?

I think it is time to flip the preconceptions and expectations of society on their heads and strike out for myself. Make the choices for number one not because they are easy and it seems what I should do, but because they are what needs to be done no matter how challenging. I need to strike out and make a new direction for myself.

As John Denver once sang “today is the first day, of the rest of my life”

Sitting here weighing up where this is all going, working a gig that makes ends meet but little more. I wonder do I ditch this and find a job that lines the coffers but isn’t as enjoyable (read cruisy). What is it that makes us happy is it easier to find with more financial security? Is it the people around us? It certainly isn’t my current combination of vocation, location and situation.

Maybe a shakeup is due….. Maybe I should follow the wisdom of Frost and ” take the road less travelled” after all he did say that made all the difference….,

Decision Time