Being an observer can mean many things to many people. But let me explain what it means to me… Over the past 5 years, my life has been pretty manic. I have moved out my home and away from my family. Left the Bluff where I spent the majority of my life surfing, diving, and irritating Heidi Palmboom to the point of madness (not me, her). Moved to Cape Town, started studying a post-graduate degree in Marketing and Advertising, battled to find a suitable job that would cover costs of living, still having to depend on my mother for financial help. Having 2 car accidents within a space of a month from each other. One leaving me in the hospital with a shattered right arm, gone through horrible breakups. And yet I am still here.
As I sit on this couch typing this blog I have shivers going through me with the thought of “what has gone on in the past 5 years”? Where the hell did the past 5 years go to? And what will the next 5 years bring for me? Does it really matter? My favourite quote is, and I don’t know who actually said it… “Life will never give you anything you cannot handle” I believe this to be true. Seeing is believing right? Well I have seen it and I have made it out the other end. Time and time again. Although you reading up to this point, my blog may be coming across a bit dark. Read on… you’ll see. There is light at the end of the tunnel! 🙂
Don’t take this as a sob story or me pitying myself. That’s not the case at all. There is always someone worse off! Remember that! This is me telling my insignificant little story, a memoir if you will. A written encounter of life at it’s best and worse. That’s exactly it… “best and worse” You cannot have the one without the other. You cannot have the ups without the downs and you cannot avoid either of them! They come in circles. I/You have gone through it once… I/You have made it! I/You will go through it again and I/You will most certainly make it! I guess what I’m getting at is… Don’t sweat the small stuff. Life is life, and so long as you have oxygen in your lungs you will always be going through something. The most important thing to remember is… you are going and going means moving, moving forward means from one place to another. The bad times aren’t forever. Nothing is permanent.
So… I have babbled on quite a bit about life’s ups and downs and moving forward and blah blah blah. Take what you will out of this blog. But two thing I do ask of you is. Take a deep breath, have a long sigh and put on some gangsta rap and roll with the punches! And secondly, take the time to observe what has been going on in your life, where the unseen lessons are. Because that’s all the bad times are. Life, the ultimate teacher, giving you a valuable lesson. It doesn’t get easier, you get stronger.