This is an opportunity! Whatever happens today will change future events. The future pivots around You, Here, Now! So do good for humanity. Be extraordinary!!
Earlier this week we took the Teen to the Dr Who Experience in Cardiff. She is a huge anorak, and massive Who fan. She loved it! Secretly so did I, but shhhh don't tell anyone! At the start of the experience are a bunch of clips taken from various shows and the quote above is taken from one of them, and adapted a little. The point of this is it really struck a chord with me, while sat on a little wooden bench in a small corner in Wales.
Earlier in the week at work I had two people crying in the space of a day. Either this means I'm a real cow for making them both cry, or they both trusted me enough to confide in me and cry on my shoulder. I'd like to think it was the latter rather than the former. Both of them are people I no longer just consider to be work colleagues, but are in fact friends. Both have an awful lot going on in their lives both at home and at work. And I have cried on both of their shoulders at some time in the past. I see it as an honour that they both chose to call in that favour, and that they know they can do that any time they need to.
One of them has reached a bit of a crossroads in life, and at work. I totally get this, and she knows that, having been there myself very recently. We talked a lot about all of this and where she would go from here, then just as we were about to head back to reality she said a sentence that may just have been the trigger for what will change her life. Nothing big, quite simple in fact. She said to me, "Do you know what my dream job is? To be a Midwife." That was it, that was the moment, the opportunity, the point in time that her future pivots around.
We talked about how actually she's never had a better opportunity to do it, and she'll never get a better one again. She's gone away, discussed it with her partner and made enquiries. She's so lucky, she is going to follow her dream! The quote at the top just seems so apt for her.
I'm not able to follow my dream now as it is no longer physically possible. So I'm working on getting a new dream, its early days yet though. Do I wish I'd followed my dream years ago when the opportunity was there? Yes and no. Yes because it was my dream job, and I know I'd have loved doing it, well at least for a while. And no because all of the other things I've done have brought me to the point in life I'm at today. Without that I wouldn't have many of the amazing people that I have in my life, and wouldn't have some of the people I love the most in the world. So in a small way I do regret not doing it, but I wouldn't turn the clock back now.
What I am doing now is making the most of the opportunities I have. I am terrified about starting my new job. I'm going into a totally different arena, dealing with a service that is completely new to me, in a team where I know nobody. I'm leaving behind everything I know, wonderful people and everything I'm comfortable with! To say I'm heading a little out of my comfort zone would be a massive understatement. The old me would never have even considered it.
The new me knows that this is an opportunity. That my future depends on this very thing. That my journey through life is about to change massively. That it all pivots around me, here, now! I want to do good, if not for humanity at least for my little bit of it. I want to do what I do well. Today really is the first day of the rest of my life. I will do my very best to Be Extraordinary!!
Watch this space..........
C x
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