To our grandchildren
I've been meaning to write a blog, to capture my thoughts and observations, for more years than I care to remember. Not because I have anything earth shattering to say, or even anything vaguely original, or have lived anything but a very normal life. Just because sometimes it seems that all that experience we gain over the years, the insights from trying new things, bad judgment calls, is just going to waste. This blog is an attempt to capture some of those things. It may be titled 'letters to our grandchildren', and I do hope that in time you may find some of this interesting. But it will also have some things that annoy, irritate or surprise your parents, brothers and sisters, as I will say what I see and feel.
For example, my views on education, politics, religion, may cause problems for some of your parents, but hopefully not you. Those views have not changed over the years, just strengthened. As I grow older things just seem clearer to me, what matters, and what doesn't matter. Right and wrong, justice and injustice, fair and unfair, individualism or the common good. Your grandma certainly doesn't agree with all my beliefs, but that's the point isn't it. Even those closest to you do not have to share your view of the world, and we are much richer for that.
To say that I have been fortunate is a serious understatement. People say you make your own luck, which I do agree with to a certain extent, but there is so much else that has happened or not happened to me that it does feel, well - lucky. Yes I have worked hard at certain times in my life, but not all the time, yet more often than not things have fallen into place quite nicely. There have been great times and not so great times, and I have learned so much from both.
So my blog will be a series of sometimes random comments on life in general, my ramblings, observations, moans, highs and lows. Things I have learned so far. They are not meant as lessons for you our wonderful grandchildren, or guidance, what to do or not do. You will find your own way, make your own mistakes, experience the great highs and sometimes lows of life. Most of all you will do it your way, and I could not hope for more.
You have wonderful parents who are preparing you for all that life can throw at you. Be yourself. You can achieve anything you desire, be anything you want to be, go anywhere you want to go. So please never settle for just OK. Just OK is never good enough. Always look over that next hill, what's over there may be just what you are looking for, and if it isn't - well, there's always another hill isn't there!
I've been meaning to write a blog, to capture my thoughts and observations, for more years than I care to remember. Not because I have anything earth shattering to say, or even anything vaguely original, or have lived anything but a very normal life. Just because sometimes it seems that all that experience we gain over the years, the insights from trying new things, bad judgment calls, is just going to waste. This blog is an attempt to capture some of those things. It may be titled 'letters to our grandchildren', and I do hope that in time you may find some of this interesting. But it will also have some things that annoy, irritate or surprise your parents, brothers and sisters, as I will say what I see and feel.
For example, my views on education, politics, religion, may cause problems for some of your parents, but hopefully not you. Those views have not changed over the years, just strengthened. As I grow older things just seem clearer to me, what matters, and what doesn't matter. Right and wrong, justice and injustice, fair and unfair, individualism or the common good. Your grandma certainly doesn't agree with all my beliefs, but that's the point isn't it. Even those closest to you do not have to share your view of the world, and we are much richer for that.
To say that I have been fortunate is a serious understatement. People say you make your own luck, which I do agree with to a certain extent, but there is so much else that has happened or not happened to me that it does feel, well - lucky. Yes I have worked hard at certain times in my life, but not all the time, yet more often than not things have fallen into place quite nicely. There have been great times and not so great times, and I have learned so much from both.
So my blog will be a series of sometimes random comments on life in general, my ramblings, observations, moans, highs and lows. Things I have learned so far. They are not meant as lessons for you our wonderful grandchildren, or guidance, what to do or not do. You will find your own way, make your own mistakes, experience the great highs and sometimes lows of life. Most of all you will do it your way, and I could not hope for more.
You have wonderful parents who are preparing you for all that life can throw at you. Be yourself. You can achieve anything you desire, be anything you want to be, go anywhere you want to go. So please never settle for just OK. Just OK is never good enough. Always look over that next hill, what's over there may be just what you are looking for, and if it isn't - well, there's always another hill isn't there!
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