Living life flashback style

I remember always wanting a life that is made in wonderland completed with the “happily ever after” tag. The endless plans I had for a picture perfect life makes me smile now with remembrance. When the neighbouring children refused to play with me, I thought “wait till I become the Princess of some great land…just you all wait” God that makes me laugh now. I was rather silly then, but it made me happy….for a while life was indeed perfect.

Life took another turn as I turned 15 years, I got hold of my first Mills & Boon series, after that I wanted no Prince from a far away land to come and rescue me….no…that will not do…now its nothing less than a Greek God for me. I was a harebrain I guess (that’s my excuse)…I would say that phase of my life was even better than perfect. Did I love all those wonderful daydreams I had?

Going to college sent my grand romantic plans to the backseat momentarily. My mission was to blend into the bleak wall and concentrated on getting myself a first class degree, whether I succeeded or not is another story. All I remember from that part of my life are the beautiful white daisies which decorated the green patches, the long walks and of course the embarrassing incident of actually flunking math. Life was in its own league there.

After that was the seemingly endless struggle to land myself a decent paying job….which in the end proved to be not that difficult…do I hear whispers of lucky you!....that is something I can’t deny, I was and am always lucky, after all what’s luck but the product of pursuit. This was the most power packed phase of my life. If I had shown half the passion for anything else as I had for my job this story might have taken a different turn…..and maybe not necessarily for the better.

Now 30 years later here I am richer by 3 dogs, a nice neat cottage, lots of tattered books I have collected over the years and a cat who chose to adopt me. People think I am eccentric and sometimes they ask me why I have never married…..all I tell them is “I had a little less look to attract their attention and they had a little less brain to hold my interest.” I had my “happily ever after” just not in the same way.