Do you know what you want from your life?

Do you know what you want from your life?

I've been alive for 46 years and during the last few years I have been gently (by life's later flow) encouraged to accept that oftentimes letting life unfurl in its own time, in its own way, is better than trying to force to go it in a particular direction.

When I was heading out into the world, twenty odd years ago, I wasn't lucky enough to have a direction; a place I wanted to arrive at. All I wanted was freedom from the rules and restrictions I saw around me.

Maybe I was lucky because I was allowed to go make silly mistakes and on the heels of those mistakes find out what I didn't want - sometimes the consequences of those mistakes have been good, sometimes they've been bad. Either way, they've been my mistakes - taking the word in its truest form: missed takes. Some have lead me well, others not so well.

I remember very clearly how much twenty year old me wanted to find her place in the world, and thirty year old me wanted to believe there was a place in the world for her to find. Forty plus me sees why it was better for me not to travel some roads, even though I did travel some of them.

I wish I could say I always followed my instinct, but I didn't. Sometimes I shoved it roughly aside and acted against it, but here I am, now, and I know I can still make good from the bad. It might have been better, but equally, it might have been worse. Who knows? It is what it is.

And now, over to you. Did you/do you know what you want from your life?