It's harder said than done to follow directions.
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It’s harder said than done to follow directions.
Do we take a left towards comfort and the well-known or go right and experience the unknown" Perhaps we prefer straight ahead and never face the alternatives.

At this age and stage choices are less frightening than they once were but a new direction is still very challenging. A comfort zone is just that, comfortable. Yet the alternative, staying the same and burying myself in the familiar frightens me. I believe “older” is not how we look or appear but very much about mentality and having a flexible attitude. Once we lock the door of change it is almost impossible to turn the key. We must keep moving, not only physically, but also mentally. The stopping is never temporary; standing still can mean we get stuck. Stuck is not where we want to be.

Finding direction in our lives doesn’t have to be a grand scheme.
Small changes, tiny achievements can be deal-breakers; we aren’t all going to revolutionise our existence. We don’t need to; it’s our world that counts. When I stand still I can feel, even in the slightest way a murmur of fear; fear to go forward, face challenges and relate with change. It is ever so slight but I sense it and probably the reason I guard and respect my energy. I push towards new directions on a regular basis and the more I do the...