Change is something that’s inevitable but we often don’t think about it. I know that change was only something I contemplated after it was first thrust upon me, a decade ago now, when my husband left me completely out of the blue. I was absolutely floored, I’d no idea at all how I was going to cope with the next moment to moment, let alone what the new grand plan would be and what on Earth I’d do with my life.
That was, bizarrely, the first time that I started to consciously make decisions about my future. It was the jolt which I so badly needed that really helped me to wake up from the comfortable sleep-walk of my everyday life. Like so many people, I lived a really content, happy life. I was a lawyer in the city, the job of my dreams, but life was framed by the daily grind and I honestly lived for my holidays. I spent most of my free time planning amazing and expensive journeys. But it turns out that these were actually little breaks away from my real life. I had managed to create a life in which I was dreaming, and needed to escape from! This existence was unsustainable and in order to be manageable, needed fancy getaways.