Beyond the drawing board!

To sit down and plan can at times be quite soul searching. However at other times it can be easier than the act of doing. Today is a new chapter , it is a day of reckoning. D-day has finally arrived. To step out and face the critics as well as the applause is never easy. However to sit in the office in the store room for the next forty years is also talent suicide.

It is natural to doubt, natural to lack self belief. The road will not be easy but it will be essential.

May I approach the task with diligence, honour mercy and respect. I may along the way have been a demolitions expert. May I now rebuild, renew and be a refreshing spirit.

I believe to open a door requires at least an attempt at the handle. If that doesn’t work a little gentle pressure. If that doesn’t work a little less subtle approach. If none of these approaches are attempted how can you get past the drawing board.

Friendship should be mutualistic!

To spend an afternoon with a friends wife who I have merely only glimpsed at once. Because both of them want to help me with an application form was a true act of friendship and a real blessing.

When their son came into the room and said he wanted to fly, you could just see the cogs in my head flicking through the filofax searching for a pilot. Then bingo, pilot who needs to keep up flying hours comes to mind and kid is sorted. This is what life should be about building each other up.

Later that night, went out to watch the rugby and it turned out into a rumour mill session among my “friends”, only those loose acquaintances who happened to be tuned in approached me for discussion about this. Others merely talked about it and pretended I wouldn’t find out.

Then I wondered how many times do I act like this second scenario rather than the first.

I should be a builder rather than a demolitions expert. But isn’t a demolitions expert an easier path.

Who says you have to choose it?