tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post2764358034420233593..comments2024-03-19T08:06:06.018+00:00Comments on Life of a Fifty-Something Yorkshireman: Change Available HereRarelesserspottedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-86777614126507323322013-10-18T17:12:30.618+01:002013-10-18T17:12:30.618+01:00Dearest Edwina and Molly
Thank you so much for tak...Dearest Edwina and Molly<br />Thank you so much for taking the time to write very honest and lovingly thought out responses. Edwina, just one knock on the village hall door at an event, an e-mail from you to say to a friend, 'Fancy a cuppa' is perhaps all it takes. It's so hard, It took me fifty three years to find a 'kindred spirit' and it happened without thinking about it, without any planning or knowledge of a meeting that happened by chance - it was meant to happen and it did - it will with you. I wish you the best of luck, love and good wishes.<br /><br />Go you Molly. Believe me - I still love my own 'me' time which is vital for my sanity but I have found a new lease of life outside my home environment. I can't look back and wish it happened sooner - it didn't, but by God I will be making the best of it. <br /><br />XXRarelesserspottedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15865928245970626612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-12204130899041140352013-10-17T10:59:41.822+01:002013-10-17T10:59:41.822+01:00Hi Stephen
Like you, I have also been "worki...Hi Stephen<br /><br />Like you, I have also been "working" on myself for quite a few years now and looking at past progamming and limiting beliefs that have held me back from being the "real" me. I turned 50 in August and decided that from now on I am going to be my true self and if people don't like it, then tough! My new motto, borrowed from the late Stuart Wilde (whose books, incidentally, completely changed my way of thinking about the world) is "No fear, no anger". <br /><br />Also, like Edwina, I am quite happy in my own company. I believe I am an empath and feel other people's energy so I hate being in crowded places because I usually come home feeling exhausted and a bit spaced out. <br /><br />Good blog post Stephen. Keep them coming!<br /><br />Best regards from Carol H. <br /><br />Molly Printempshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08677983247237875712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5083684017954117107.post-73786968551843951822013-10-14T08:45:03.578+01:002013-10-14T08:45:03.578+01:00Hi...
I found you via 'Weaver of Grass' bl...Hi...<br />I found you via 'Weaver of Grass' blogspot and so glad I did. What an interesting post, so different from the norm in Blogland - or have I not been looking in the right place?<br />As a sixty-something Yorkshirewoman who has a tendency to speak her mind, give honest opinions if asked for them and who as a consequence of both of these has lost several friendships over the years, I have often wished I could change the me I am. And it is only really since getting past my late fifties that I have realised certain things about me. I suppose you could say I have been doing work on myself, though that sounds totally pretentious - but covers it. Spending some time looking at how I have lived, how I have behaved, what I really, really wanted in life and how I have compromised myself doing what was expected, being what was expected of me for so very long. Now I am living my life as I want to, with no apologies or explanations, people either take me as I am, or don't. Simple.<br />All well and good, but I still long for that close friend I no longer have in my life. I have very close female friends, and a couple of male ones, but never spend time with them, it's contact by letter and email. But they are friends who have been in my life for the past 20-40 years (in the case of one of the male friends, even longer as he was my first serious boyfriend back in the mid-60s) who I can't imagine not having in my life. And whilst I am happy with my own company and my dearest husbands' too, I do sometimes long for a kindred spirit, someone to call up and say 'kettle's on, coming round?'. I guess it won't happen since I am not a joiner in, don't belong to any groups in the village and have no interest in doing so. But it means my contact with people is limited. I tell myself if it is going to happen, it will....but time is running out!<br />Thanks for a great read... how's East Yorkshire looking today. I spent the first four years of my life in Hull, and then returned to East Yorkshire many years later, living in Hutton Cranswick and then later, Cherry Burton. Loved Beverley, didn't like Hull!Edwinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03439221693794136665noreply@blogger.com