A colourful bandana
A moon lit beach, gentle waves lapping at the feet of the couple walking on the beach. She wearing rolled up blue denims with a soft white muslin shirt and he was handsome and fit with salt and pepper sprinkled hair. They were holding hands and walking on the beach with a comfortable silence between them.
This ‘beach walk’ is a constant on my ‘to do’ list. Apart from our increasing age & weight ☺️, nothing else changes in the vision mentioned above.
In my forties I am at the crossroads of life. Job jumping phase done with, going steady currently in all aspects whether with our relationships with in-laws, hubby or children. We have more or less understood each other’s expectations and settled in.
Prioritise, manage your time, think positive and more such blah spewed by management gurus and swallowed by yours truly as a daily dose. This is when I have to mentally swat the voice that keeps nagging ‘are you missing something, something that you wanted to do left undone maybe..?’ Ugh, pretty annoying this mental analysis of personal achievements day in and day out!
And in the midst of all this trickles in the news of a relative or an acquaintance who has passed on to that timeless zone after a prolonged fight with age or disease. Jars me into taking a reality check! I check my unwritten ‘to do’ list and my ‘have been wanting to do this for a long time now’ list. I realize that I need to tick a lot of these boxes just because of the fact that “I am alive……period!!!” This is when I connect with those incessant whispers that go ‘are you missing something, something that you wanted to do….left undone maybe?’
A colorful bandana begins the list. A colorful bandana to tie in those fly away locks of hair, a leather jacket and a motorbike to ride off into the sunset. A walk on a moonlit beach (this box will never get ticked though done many times over), learn how to make cocktails, learn to dance, have insane laughter sessions with friends and so on and so forth with last but not the least probably with a post which has humorous interpretations of the various boxes ticked.
Responsibilities are never ending, but life is…… so get on with that list, start ticking those boxes. Time to take some inspiration from the youth of today who are doing all of this though we might prefer to back it up with some of our experience drawn wisdom. And remember to keep a colorful bandana with you always as you never know when you might get the opportunity to ride off into the sunset.
