2024….
I was just sitting here pondering what actually to write about next. Like everyone else here, I think, we all seem to start with wanting to get our words out, with all excitement and positivity, hope for a few ‘likes’, ‘follows’ and then wonder - ‘What Next?’
Well, I definitely have.
I started writing about things that had actually happened to me. (not quite sure anyone is particularly interested……. ), but, hey-ho, what else would I write about. Fiction is not particularly my thing, I don’t think, so ‘real life’ it is.
I’m starting the New Year with a few take-aways. This year I really want to have more ‘real life’ moments. As I mentioned in my last post, we have all become so heavily reliant on the internet and ‘phone’ moments, I just want to have a change this year. I really want to take ‘time’ this year. To have more ‘real’ life moments. One of my 2023 high-lights was that I actually went back home for a visit to Australia after 17 long years. It was starting to be beyond a joke that I hadn’t returned home in that time - at least for a visit. The grape vine of opinion of the why’s and why not’s was lying heavy…
I can’t tell you exactly ‘why’ it had taken me so long, other than the obvious - time and money. For a family of 5 to not only pay for the flights but then have somewhere to stay for the time and have something to drive for the time - those rentals? - in actual fact, turn into a small fortune spent, real quick. There’s only so long you can sleep on your Mum’s couch ( X 5 !!! ) before the excitement of ‘you’ve all come to stay - yay!’ turns into a ‘when did you say your return date was?’ Haha. With work and school holidays - the ‘time’ was also always an issue. Wrong season, not enough school holiday time and from the UK or Europe, you can’t exactly just go for a week. *sigh..
So, finally, after all that time, I took myself there for 6 weeks. My oldest son was already there doing a work experience, gap year with Uni, and I met him there. It was the perfect time to spend quality time with my Mum who turned 80 while I was there. I am really just so happy that I not only managed to get away for that long, but I got to spend that special time with her. I got to spend a lot of time catching up with the friends that I hadn’t seen in all those years too. In real life, in real time, in person, with actual human contact - this may sound completely obvious but - eye contact and human touch is a really important thing. (those hugs from those special people! Amazing…. )
With all this ‘facetime’, online, whatsapp, blah, blah, and blah, blah…. It gives us all freedom to be where-ever, what-ever and when-ever, which has its bonus’ but! Human contact is still so very important. Lets not ever forget that.
For me in particular. As I said, I left Australia - my family and friends, everything I knew and loved, way back in 2006. Since then, I hadn’t been back. Naturally My Mum and Dad had been to visit me at various times. Not together, as they are divorced, but our Goodbyes are always tainted with the unknown of never actually knowing when our next meeting will be ( and as they get older - tainted more so for me, by the question of - ‘Will’ there be a next time.. always a sad and awful thought in the back of my mind ).
On top of that - Lets not forget that ‘Covid’ experience we all shared together. Where we all HAD to only have ‘online’ contact for a bit. These experiences have really brought the message home to me - loud and clear - human and real life contact is an incredible and irreplaceable thing. That time this past year with those wonderful people, family and friends, was -
Oh - so very important and Oh - so wonderful.
So! - back to my point. Where to from here? This is another ‘online’ thing - right?
Well, I do enjoy writing here, although, sometimes, I really just don’t know the topic to even start with. I know that for anything to really work you need to have consistency. With sometimes staggering to find a topic of observation or conversation, obviously that’s really not great for ‘consistency’. Some people here use this space almost like a journal or a diary entry, with regular posts about this and that, sometimes 2 or 3 times and day. Others really do have a business going with all their subscribers - free and paid - keeping them inspired to keep going forward with whatever topic they are here with. Perhaps I should just stay with this for the ‘hobby’ part that it is. I’m really not too sure to be honest and I haven’t even been here on this platform very long… Its a weird one.
Well - haha - I’ll keep you posted, I’m sure …
Until next time ..
- Go squeeze that special someone in your life, that ‘real’ person you have next to you - gXxx
Merci pour ce moment de lecture instructif et agréable, très cool et bon esprit. Go on...