I  am moving house and went onto Craigslist to look for cardboard boxes.

I didn’t expect this offer!

I am aging. There is no denying it , no disguising it,  no turning the clock back.

Each morning I wash my face, moisturize it , and start applying my face paint.  I look , and I see dark circles and wrinkles.

Laughter lines,  they call them and I like to think they are correct.  I have laughed a lot so far , but I didn’t agree to having them etched on my face.

Recently I have changed which mirror I look into when I put my make up on.  I used to put it on in my bathroom which has bright bulbs in the lights shining down.  This apparently makes everything look garish and much worse in the harsh light of day.

If you have ever seen the Bridget Jones movie where she puts her make up on in the taxi  whilst driving to a function in the dark ,  you will know what I’m talking about! She arrives looking like a 17th century French harlot.

I have now figured out that the children’s bathroom has natural light flooding in ,and is a lot kinder to me, and those that have to gaze upon me.

Aging isn’t easy, but I’m sliding into it with both feet! Yahoooo!!

Have you ever wondered  what you might tell your younger self if you could?

The immediate thoughts that spring to mind for me are, don’t date him, be more confident, don’t worry about what other people think.

What I really should’ve told myself was that math doesn’t matter in my older life and that I was going to be happy eventually.

There is no plan for your life. (Religious beliefs aside) .  We are meant to make mistakes, have life experiences, be sad, as    that is what shapes us to be the person we are, for better or worse.  But that’s just my opinion.

if you are one of the lucky ones who had no tears , despair , heartbreak, but only a joyful childhood , then I’m happy for you. I believe that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

If I went back to my younger self and said not to date ‘the bad guy’ , I wouldn’t have my oldest son.

If I told myself not to make the move to the United States I would’ve missed out on so much!

If I hadn’t kissed a lot of frogs, I wouldn’t have found my prince.

Changing history might change your life as it is today, but it would also erase some of the most wonderful things that happened to you , because one would impact the other.

I believe that life is for living in the moment.  Don’t look back and regret  as you cannot change it now , but look forward with  hope for a happy future.

I asked my father what he would tell his younger self, he thought about it for a moment and then said he would whisper in his ear

” Google”