As Mr Chalk and myself are celebrating our 50th birthdays this year, we had been pondering on what to do to mark this quite special milestone. Do we have a party and invite friends and family? Do we take the boys on a wonderful holiday? Do we go somewhere exotic ourselves?
Well, call us selfish if you want, but we have opted for the latter, and have just booked a 2-week break later in the year in Bali and I am really excited about it. I am sure that many people will feel that it is not quite the thing to just slope off somewhere lovely, just the two of us, but – as we saying the other day – now we are getting older we seem to have developed a ‘do what we want to do’ mentality (within reason of course). This does not mean that we are neglecting our nearest and dearest at all, but we know the value of treating ourselves once in a while. To borrow that quote from a well-known beauty brand ‘Because we’re worth it’.
Its funny but just lately I feel a real shift in my thinking towards trusting my own intuition more, and doing what seems right and natural. This may be as simple as going for comfort when it comes to clothes, to doing things that maybe I wouldn’t have done before, because I felt that it wasn’t for me. I feel more a sense of freedom, a need to follow my own path, and not be hypnotised by what society tells me I should or shouldn’t do. I’m not sure if this comes from the feeling that, the older you get, life seems to race by even faster, and the sense of your own mortality is much more sharply in focus.
But, in the same way that I feel the need to ‘plough my own furrow’ as it were, I also feel a need to contribute in some way, and I am so grateful that my career gives me the opportunity to help people to change their lives, as this gives my life a meaning that it otherwise would not have. As always, its all about achieving a balance.
Perhaps you are approaching a milestone birthday, and its making you re-assess things. I’d love to hear your thoughts. Do contact me on wendy@wendychalk.co.uk.
Wendy x
