All through our lives we have comforted ourselves with the thought that tomorrow is another day and we can look forward to that special visit, that special purchase, that change we might wish for to enrich our lives. The opportunities we believed were in our compass and it only required a decision here or there to accomplish another dream.
Slowly as we get
older we have to relinquish our dreams and settle for reality. No bad
thing in some ways since reality can be as enriching if we allow our
imagination to scrutinise the common place to investigate what is around
us and not always hanker for a places further afield, with an image
sold by the marketing folk, air brushed to enhance what is there. The elite places like the multi dollar hotels and their exclusive play zones. The countries which we have read about and always assumed we would find the time to visit. The experience of doing things that were part of ones tick box to do now begin to recede for ever.
Of course this "for ever" is very personal, when we depart things continue as before without a tremor.
We submit ourselves daily, through the TV, to a lifestyle which seems so glamorous. The Monaco based drivers from the GP circuit, the commentators, the rich and the famous parade our screens and we wonder what it is like to eat and drink in the best eateries, to communicate in a world where glitz and wit is everywhere.
Back in our box we have to accept that we will be second best in most things and that we are running out of tomorrows to change things. Have we left anything on the table, have we squeezed out the last bit of what ever, before we depart.
No regrets, I did it my way !!!!
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