Rule No.65 - Life is short, avoid causing yawns.

Today, the 1st December, is World Aids Day. It is a day like this that makes you realise just how short life is. I am wearing my red (well ox-blood) Christopher Strong dress today with my little red ribbon to show my support as I hope you are too.

Life is short. How often do we say that but then don't end up doing anything about it. Now, my friend Gee has it all sorted out. He has helped me see that it is never too late to do what you want to do. He has signed up for music lessons, went bungee jumping the other day, bought a new camera to start taking amazing photos and lives each and every day as if it's the last. He's making the effort, doing what needs to be done and smiling all the way.

This past weekend we played a game in the car on our journey away, asking questions and the first thing that comes to mind you had to say, one of the questions was "I am most afraid of..." and my immediate response was "dying before I have done all the things I want to do" followed very closely by spiders. I'm not afraid of dying, just that it happens before I am done. This in it's own should tell me to get up and get going. Start my drumming lessons, plan more trips overseas, get into surfing again, paint more, sleep less so I have more time to live life and experience new things. The list is pretty long so I wont bore you with the details, but just take a second now to think about what you have been wanting to do for a long time, but you think it is too far out of reach. Now write that down somewhere, put it in a tin or box and put it somewhere safe. Then start working towards that goal.

Let's try not be those people that say, oh yes, once I wanted to do that. Find the courage and do whatever you can to reach that goal, cause after all, life is short.

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