The Dreams We Never Knew About
When you have a birthday mile-stone, it gets you thinking more than you normally do. You think about the things you have been too scared to do, you think about the over-seas travel you have not done, you think about whether you want to relocate, travel or stay where you are and put down roots. Of course, timing is everything. And whether you have the moula and moxy to do it. Then you think about the dreams you have accomplished. When I was twenty I had a loooooong list of dreams I had for my life. There is one dream on that list that I still have not accomplished - to be a writer. In my heart I know this is possible - because impossible things happen every day. Then there is a reasonable voice in my head saying that there is every chance it can happen and every chance that it won't. Still, I wanted this to happen so badly since I realised the joy writing brought to me. At times I got depressed and it was painful for me to walk into a book shop and be happy for the authors ...