Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Take responsibility

Not sure why my title is 'Take responsibility'.  On the other hand I do.
You know when you go away with your family for holiday and time after time you go the same way you did before and you see the same view again and again?
I kind of feel that is me. 
Yet every time you go on the same trip, the scenery is just a little different because the tree grew taller or there is another park bench in that same park.  Or there is less or more buildings on your journey.  A slight change every time you revisit the same place.  This is my reality.
I seem to go the same way, see the same things and revisit it all over again.  However, the view is altered just slightly.  It's not just different because the view has change but I have changed also.  I think that is the point. 
Yes, I take responsibility of things which are the same.  Like, my aim to become a writer or an actor or a Nutrimetics manager or lose weight.  I get to a certain point and I just stop or I don't go further.  I accept the way life is at that moment or I don't add to the experience.  Kind of like I have settled for what I feel I have become or won't become. 
However, just like the trip, every time might be the same.  I might see the same things and revisit what is familiar but each time I need to remember, the view is a  little bit different to the last. Not forgetting though, it changes because life changes... that's the beauty of life...
I take responsibility for: if I want change in my life and change my surroundings, it is me who has to change.  This is great  for me at the moment because, for the first time, there is no guilt attached.  Normally I would punish myself for not getting to where I need to go such as becoming manager or writing my next book or getting my next play or loosing 5 kilo, but for some reason, I don't feel guilty anymore... maybe its my age, maybe it is because I am truly happy with who I am.  I don't know but one thing I know is I don't want to question it.  Not having guilt is quite liberating.
At the end of the day, I am only letting myself down.  I want my life to make a statement but I want more to remember the scenery for the changes it has made over the years and find the beauty in the slight changes too, no matter how big or small they may be. 

Friday, May 9, 2014

100 years ago

It so feels like 100 years ago since I was here... so many things have happened yet not too much has happened at all.
So what has happened over the last few months? Well...
Went to Adelaide for Christmas, saw the family, had a great time...said goodbye to my father-in-law, who was very sick & dying....
Husband & I
Came home, began a play (The Emperor's new clothes) had to leave Sydney opening day because father-in-law died, flew to Adelaide with family for the funeral...(2 days ago it would be 3 months since he passed)
Headed back to Sydney, finished the play, had the best time, performed with some really cool and amazing actors.
Rejoined Nutrimetics. Have done really well... wanting to see success and just have a regular job that brings in fantastic money and I want to help other women find their path too...
Was in 2 short films... again got to work with some amazing people... 1 film was going to be shown in the US so I can only hope someone might think I am worth following up.. that same film, my director recommended me on line, huge compliment... 2nd film, I was featured... can only hope I wasn't edited on to the floor...
Finally On April 5 2014 walked all the way to Sydney from Kellyville.. took me 11 hours but I did it!
Daughter at high school now and is obsessed with her hair and looking the part..
Other daughter broke her arm and has just got the use back..
So as you can read, lots has happened and I have nothing to complain about... Life is busy... and good... and full...
I was about to write something deep and observatory but when I re-read I see my speaking of what I don't feel or don't have or am not getting to is pointless because I am so blessed... no matter how I look at it.  I just have to knock myself out the way and just move forward and do whatever it takes to continue on this amazing journey... I didn't walk to Sydney for nothing.  I walked to Sydney because I wanted to achieve something, to feel a sense of accomplishment.. It should continue... and it will..
It may be  100 years since I last did an entry on my blog but really, when I think of it, it was just yesterday I was here....