I’m the parent of an adult – WTF?!
On 27th August 1999, I became a parent for the first time. Charlotte Grace Foley, weighing 7lbs 13oz, arrived in Room 7 of Medway Maritime Hospital’s delivery ward early on a Friday evening.
Charlotte’s A Level results.
So today (17th August 2017) is A-Level results day in the UK. Thousands of 17 / 18 year olds up and down the country are getting their A-Level results and for some of them, their futures depend on them for University places. I’m just concerned with one of those kids however, and that’s my eldest, Charlotte.
You just can’t do everything!
We all have things that occupy our time in a number of ways; work, family, hobby and a variety of obligations. A key skill is learning to manage and balance them!
Simple Pleasures…the garden.
There’s something to be said for simple pleasures in life and stopping for a moment to enjoy them, admire them and capture them for posterity.
Where have I gone wrong?
A bit of a vent…
If judging oneself or anyone else to have “gone wrong”, what is the yardstick being used and who set the standards being measured against? After all, one person’s “wrong” is another’s “not bad”, much like political opinion. Some would have us do something in a particular way that others regard (either in method or outcome) as anathema to them. A quote from the film “Twelve Monkeys”, often used, adjusted and (incorrectly) attributed to a variety of people is “There is no right or wrong, there is only popular opinion”. Contentious maybe, but I think there is something to it. This is not about judgement of others however, but more about judgement of oneself. Therefore some discussion of the standards being measured against and how they were acquired, when coming to the conclusion of having “gone wrong”, is merited.
Where are you from?
Where are you from – that’s a good question isn’t it? At risk of being accused of over-thinking it, I think that there’s more to being “from” somewhere than simply having been born there.