- Once, when I was a
younger man, I asked my boss what it was that he had done before he became CEO
of his company. He replied that “in his other life” he had been a salesman and
had traveled the country meeting with accounts and enjoying the single life on
the road. “Other Life” I thought? How many lives can one
person have, and how many does one need?
- Reflecting back on that moment today, I would have
to answer that we all have as many lives as we need to. Some are passive,
others more aggressive, and still others have a life of their own.
- In my preteens I was my parent’s child being molded
by their example and wishing for a time when I could be grown up.
- In my teens and twenties, I was a head strong young
man striving to find my place in the world and to break free of the childhood
ties that kept me prisoner.
- Arriving at my thirties, I was the adult that I had
so desired to be, but there was still that lack of personal freedom that I so
desired.
- Enter forty, and I found myself ready to be my own
man. Starting my own business and taking a life partner, I very much felt the
successful ingénue that I had strived to be.
- It wasn’t however until the age of sixty that I
realized my full potential. Having survived four previous incarnations and the
death of a long time life partner I felt myself broken and exhausted. But
instead of lying down for the count I picked myself up and with the help of my
husband Chadwick, I began to build a new and even more perfect life in which to
flourish.
- Will there be a sixth incarnation? Perhaps if need
be. But I would rather like to think that this time is the last time. And from
this point forward the best is yet to come … It must be!
