Time... it will not wait.

[Shadow]

I was actually thinking about this in the car on the way to work (and I didn't know it was on anybody else's mind !!) mile:.

From the perspective of a 30-year old, I would say that I WISH I had appreciated when I was in my teens, and twenties that life APPEARS to my eye to very much move along in stages.

When I was in my teens I was always striving to be more mature - wiser, smarter, to learn more and take in all I could find ...

... in my twenties it was all (for me) about personal development - trying to work on my self-confidence, going to the gym, bulking-up a bit, trying to find a man, and so on and so forth ...

... but it's now that I'm in my 30's (which I still regard as reasonably young) looking back at my life so far that I appreciate that I STILL feel young enough to be able to do WHATEVER I want with my life, so it doesn't feel when you're standing HERE as though you're an appreciable way through your journey - it DOES, however, feel like I rather missed the point of being younger (for ME, I'm not saying this applies to you) was that I ought to have been doing these things, but not at the expense of ENJOYING myself ... because as you get that little bit older you will find (as I have), I'm sure, that life presents you with opportunities ... not just to learn and to grow and to develop ... but opportunities to expand your business acumen; to try your hand at different lines of work; and to choose which path to walk, as a matter of course.

I'm not one to preach (at least I really HOPE I don't come across as being that way), and I know that everybody is different, but what I would like to try and convey to those of you younger than myself is that whilst it's not my place to tell you what to do, and whilst I do not want AT ALL to come across as in ANY way condescending or patronising ?

I think (I HOPE) you will find, as I have, that as you progress with your lives, life itself helps you to find the right way ... so you don't need to worry TOO much about things when you're younger, as there are opportunities (both good and bad) waiting in the wings to reveal themselves to you as time progresses.

This is the wizened Shadow, signing off.

mile:.

everybody xx.

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