I thought to myself the other day, when I’m old and grey, I want to look back on my life and be able to say - I lived!… so in aid of this I’m posting on here different things I will try to do before I’m 30 (maybe a bit past that as I’m edging towards that anyway!) (NB Some of these things may have already been ticked off now)
- Set a guiness world record (anything, in fact the more peculiar the better)
- Swim with Dolphins
- Run the marathon
“Any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.”
The credo from the film ‘Hitch’, I quite like it. Not for its award winning script (hhmm) or the comedy genius that is Will Smith (questionable), I enjoy it because it does something that no other film does, it shows love and the dating game from the mans perspective.
Of course firstly, you have to cut through all that Hollywood rubbish, film makers feel obliged to cram into their masterpiece, but there are some interesting points made. The idea that a guy needs a game plan, because “it’s so damn hard to say I like you’. And how true it is, for every girl who dreams of being swept off her feet by a knight in shining armour, there’s a guy wishing he was sweeping her off her feet and being that knight!
But it’s just not that easy, because you see ladies, we are men, we do have feelings, we are sensitive, we do doubt ourselves and we do worry that wearing our hearts on our sleeves will result in it being trampled on and crushed, shot down in a blaze of despair!
I’ve had an unsettling feeling for some time, I wasn’t quite sure what it was until recently.
I was best man at my cousins wedding and after I had done revealing the gory details of our childhood, my uncle put his arm around me and said “I just realised that you two are no longer the young boys playing football in the garden anymore”. And then it hit me - I was old! well at least I was an adult (which when you’re ten years old, anything over twenty one is classed as old!).
For years we are part of a family unit – our mums, our dads, are our guides, our conscience. We did what we were told; we went where our parents went. We knew our boundaries and we grew as individuals based around those boundaries, combining this with our own life experience and the lessons life has taught us in our short existence on earth.
