I was having a coffee today at a shopping center and as I was watching people go about their business I thought about my life. I thought, Mate you had some interesting jobs and careers. I served in the Military, I worked in the Prisons, including Boggo Road and 2 Division which is now a Museum, I worked as a Firefighter, I worked Security overseas, I worked for some of the largest Property Companies out there like Lend Lease, GPT, Charter Hall, Dexus, and some interesting other jobs in between. I was privileged to marry two of the most gorgeous women on this planet, according to my opinion as I am sure you all say that correctly about your wifes and girlfriends, one of whom gave me three beautiful children and I now have a grandson as well. I am doing well at Uni with a career change to Psychology. I have been broke, financially well off, broke, rich, broke, financially well off, broke, and pretty well off again. I have managed to stop smoking cigars and am as fit if not fitter then I was ten years ago. I have recently developed an app which I have successfully sold, although I will be involved until it is released. I have some good friends, some I have never even met face to face, and I live close to all my family, both parents are alive and all in all I spend most of my days now trying to come up with my next business venture. So I guess I should consider myself lucky. Many people are worse off. I then look across the table to the empty chair and I am wondering what it is exactly I am doing here or am going to do here in the future. I have actually never been close to my family, I was always busy making money, chasing the next big job, going on that next adventure, that I missed my kids growing up, family became strangers and nothing really fitted in anymore. The last year the one person that held me together also decided to disappear and I am sure most of you got fairly sick of my posts on here but it helped get me through the pit and out the other site. No, I am not in that pit now..........I am simply contemplating the next step in my life. I just realized that having coffee alone is boring, going shopping by yourself is boring, that wish that one day we can do whatever we want without considering anyone is actually not what it is cut out to be....its boring.....The realization that there may only be one rocking chair on your veranda in the future is pretty scary. So, do you just hang around and become another one of those old, lonely people, talking to the meals on wheels people once a week, or do you just enjoy whats here now, while your still healthy and go out with a bang before meals on wheels book themselves in permanently. A very good friend of mine had a stroke recently and although he is doing fine it made me think what if I have one now, worse then his, and ended up incapacitated........what kind of life would I actually have without a family, without someone special that stood by you no matter what. I can only start to imagine the millions of old, lonely people out there each and every day and I do not intend to join their ranks. Perhaps if we all decided to adopt one of these people imagine the joy it would bring to so many old people out there that do not have anyone, think about it. Anyway, back to me.....I dont want you to adopt me, I am not that old yet, and unless you are a gorgeous female I am not up for adoption yet.......No, I am simply contemplating my future so I can lock a direction into my compass and start navigating forward to some form of contact.....If you read this far down...thanks for listening...
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 04:29:31 +0000
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