I want to have the time to travel and experiment with a new digital SLR (that I will buy). And to go to college and learn to “do” it properly. And get a proper software package and learn how to use it – what all the words mean – curves, gamma, threshold, histogram, stretch etc. And publish my photos somewhere, or display them in a gallery.
I am tone deaf, can’t hold a tune to save my life and really really would like to be able to stand up in front of an audience and entertain them. Or even just sit and play my guitar and sing to it. I even sound bad to me.
...’cos I have just had my responsibilities at work increased threefold which means longer hours, more stress and LESS TIME TO ENJOY LIFE…..........(bugger)
Things that matter – being a husband, father, son, friend.
Things that don’t matter – being an employee, being stressed, being angry if someone makes an honest mistake, whether right is right and wrong is wrong – it’s all relative, what people think (apart from the people I care about)...I could go on…
6 years on and we don’t laugh the same. We still love each other but we spend too much time worrying about family, friends, neighbours, problems, work. We just don’t laugh the same. We have got to before we slip too far the other side of the line and then it all just gets routine… and I love her too much for that…
life is so busy – work, kids, family, problems, bills, worries etc. I really need to laugh more and spend more time laughing with the people I love. Life is too short and time is ticking by – not so slowly these days either. This is about making time to smell the flowers… before its too late.
I gave up in Jan 2005. I went to the NHS service and used patches and gum. The best info I was given is that smoking has two sides to it – the addiction and the habit. The patches and gum and some willpower sorted the addiction – not easy but it did. The habit was probably harder – I found something else to do instead of lighting up after a meal, with a drink, while watching TV. The addiction lasts a few weeks, the habit can take longer to kick and it is usually this that turns people back to smoking.
You can only give up when YOU are ready. I went through the health thing, and the cost thing and the anti-social and smelly thing but in the end what did it for me was the realisation that a 4 inch white stick was ruling my life – and that nothing and no-one is going to tell me what to do and when to do it. Why should I need to stop what I was doing every hour and go somewhere and light up?
When you are ready you’ll know and you’ll find your own reason.
