No one has a perfect life. That isn’t an excuse though. You can achieve whatever it is you want, so long as you can lose the fear, or the excuses.
That is just my opinion anyway, and it is one I’ve only come to hold in the last year and a half. At that start of that period of time, I discovered that I had a somewhat dodgy heart. I go in for my first procedure this Sunday, hence the time out.
Yes, it has been a long road - but I suppose the reason that I even mention it is that it has made me lose all fear. Before, I was nervous about everything I was half-decent at - and now I say, well, sure, I’ll give it a go. Because what is the alternative? That my heart and I sit at home feeling sorry for ourselves - while the life we wish we had continues on outside our window?
There is nothing that can go so terribly wrong with trying. There is no failure so devastating - or mistake so huge, that can change the fact that you have ability. There is no job, no opportunity, no moment, that is as terrifying as the thought that you may not get the chance to experience every job, every opportunity and every moment in the future.
So now, each morning, I say that today I will prepare to do something that I am afraid of - and, more importantly, today I will try and overcome that same fear. Because today is all we have, and aren’t we so very, very grateful for it.
xBlanaid
P.S On a very, probably far too very much, personal note, I would just like to say thank you to my friends and family for their lovely support - I’m sure you can imagine that it has been difficult at times, but they have all been calm, collected and too cool for skool. I would also like to say that the people I work with, Laura Cunningham and Eoin Hennessy, have taught me more about patience and consideration in the last 16 months than most could hope to learn in a lifetime. I am, without question, a very, very lucky girl.
Sometimes you see a website full of clothes, that makes you want to throw out every single item of clothes in your wardrobe, buy the site’s full stock, pack said new stock into some suitcases and head off to live in a white villa in the South of France.
…with Eoin (above left) …and organising an impromptu ‘wedding’..
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