Every time I look at our house, aside from the list of ‘must do that’ and ever growing list of ‘things we’d like to do to the house’ (sheesh that’s a list...) I still get a huge smile on my face that we live here. It’s completely lovely without being anything like perfect.
The number of conversations I had with people, just before we moved, who really want to move away from it all, and were at a doable time in their lives to do so but haven’t because * insert list of reasons here* including they are scared of the unknown/they feel they shouldn’t/ what about the family/children/ how on earth do you live without a city around you. It was crazy - I heard it tens of times.
I can tell you a thousand good points for every negative one they had and I can literally list how much it’s been good for us all. Genuinely good.
I can recall a particular lady telling me how much she wanted to do what we had. But that although she was retiring soon, -and her husband had just retired (and the kids were grown up and the shares had been cashed in) her partner had decided maybe they had better not. It was a big, too big step, moving to the unknown. It was something other people did. They couldn’t. Not really. And she was pretty sad. Accepting but sad. He was right after all. Scary. Better not.
I think about her often. I wish I could show her how it’s all turning out. The good, the bad. The amazing.
Life is too short. Take the leap. Meet the new people, embrace the life somewhere else. Take that job, or start that journey, or move, or change direction - Whatever your challenge is in order to achieve your dream —- DO IT. There is so much you can’t do in this world that when faced with new scary things you CAN do; for heaven sake do them. Even a tiny bit. I’m rooting for you. The whole universe is. Honest.
And if your dream is moving somewhere beautiful, rural, and filling it with random animals then I have a big list of top tips and an even bigger list of please don’t do what I did mistakes. Anytime you need those just shout ;)
