Game Changers

Ask your 12 year old self “what defines you” and then evaluate the answer with what you are today.  How far have you deviate from the life path you thought you were on when you were a kid?

       I am thinking back to the person I was when I was in Grade 7, when I was 12 years old, before practical things and hormones got in the way of my fascination.  At 12 I was still looking for adventure, I still loved ghost and detective stories while romance novels were still something for the future.  I was a very active kid, I liked to bicycle, climb trees, run, explore and make up adventure stories and games.  I was pretty creative in a variety of ways but I especially loved to write stories, any kind of story.

       Today while I am reading “Boundless Potential” I rest between chapters and question my passion, my fascination and where I want to be.  Perhaps it seems obvious that writing is what I want to do in my “second half” but I have doubts.  As I closed my eyes this afternoon I thought about what it would be like to simply take off the chains that bind me, chains that tie me down, chains named Responsibility, Common Sense, Doubts, Talentless.  I pictured myself a few days after my final days of official work and saw the chains fall away and I felt that perhaps there is hope to get back the imagination I once had before “earning one’s living” got in the way.

       I am so thankful that I stayed tuned in when the program Boundless Potential aired and I am so glad I pursued the piqued interest by buying and reading this book.  I feel my confidence slowly growing back and I find myself thinking “I can really nail this thing called retirement”.   Not by sitting in a rocking chair, not by going fishing, by volunteering, by visiting and doing slipslop work but rather by going back to what I love and making it my life.

       When I grow up, I want to be a writer.