Guilt is a strange thing It can vary from a fairly low grade, “could have done better” type of guilt to a nuclear grade that can quickly become an addiction. Self flagellation is, it appears, a severe risk if you let yourself drift along that particular road. I sincerely do not intend for that to happen.
Recent evidence suggests that I am currently cruising in the slow lane of the guilt highway, but as we all know I am an addictive kind of chap and the risks appear obvious.
Best to do something about it now then, which I suppose is the underlying purpose of this post. The title points towards a lack of activity on here since before the better half & I headed off “down under”, but really it’s about the lack of direction that I am currently feeling. That is where the guilt starts to accumulate.
Someone once described early retired chaps as a bunch of busy fools. I never quite understood that until recently. Whenever quizzed on how I spend the time afforded by this recently acquired freedom, I trot out the usual platitudes about being busy, no idea how I found the time to work etc. etc. but in reality the statement about busy fools rings rather too true for comfort. It is true that there is much to do and there is little point listing it all here, but suffice to say that without direction and focus none of it really amounts to much.
A future post, I suppose, will have to be an honest assessment of the pro’s & con’s of where I am at.
Can’t wait!
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