But apart from that I love “If your life is comfortable, secure, and predictable, you’re already dead.” and “The best way to meet the girl of your dreams is to walk up to her and say “Hi”.” The best advise I’ve ever heard is “Do something everyday that scares you.”

I look forward to investing the time in reading the rest of your blog.

more productive
comfortable
not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
at ease
eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
a patient better driver
a safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
sleeping well (no bad dreams)
no paranoia
careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole)
keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall)
favours for favours
fond but not in love
charity standing orders
on sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
car wash (also on sundays)
no longer afraid of the dark
or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
nothing so childish
at a better pace
slower and more calculated
no chance of escape
now self-employed
concerned (but powerless)
an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)
will not cry in public
less chance of illness
tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)
a good memory
still cries at a good film
still kisses with saliva
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick
that’s driven into
frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
calm
fitter, healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics

I landed a so called management position after retiring in Kuwait. It is a boring job, no latitude or discretion to make decisions; just a mouthpiece for higher management. I spend long hours in the desert working with the most un-imaginative entity in the world the Army. I dread going to work, sleep away my time off.

Now, however, I have become accustomed to my comfort zone, a six figure income, a company provided villa, vehicle and no expenses.

I am 48, a recent University graduate, divorced; children grown and need to muster-up the balls to live instead of exist.

Thanks

Great post.