A Golden Oldie Escapes From God’S Waiting Room

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‘She’s gone’ together with amongst those words my life was torn asunder. I had spent many years taking attention of my woman raise together with the final iv had slow go to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than hard for both of us. Mum was suffering physically together with I could run into her slow fading away. The final yr was the worst (of course) every bit she became weaker together with sicker eventually having a stroke together with passing on to a amend world.

After the stress together with trauma of Mum’s passing I started thinking what I would do, I had no plans every bit my whole life had been work, children together with thence looking after parents (although at that topographic point had been a lot of go dreaming over my life fourth dimension together with a footling flake of actual travel). Then to a greater extent than drama, which cutting my planning short, the final surviving fellow member of my menage unit of measurement of rootage took legal activity on Mum’s will. Being stunned is an understatement. We had lost our blood brother means dorsum inwards 1980, a instrumentalist amongst bang-up talent gone likewise early. Then our begetter inwards 2001 together with our woman raise inwards 2010. I persuasion that peradventure existence the final ones left would receive got drawn us closer, but no. Then, a flake to a greater extent than than a yr into the legal activity this blood brother also died. This actually threw me. Now at that topographic point was no-one left from my menage unit of measurement of origin, no-one who knew me every bit a child, no-one from my menage unit of measurement of rootage to love or fifty-fifty endure angry at! What was I to do?

Yes, I receive got 2 sons, but they each receive got their ain lives. One was edifice several businesses together with had a life partner also amongst line of piece of job organisation ventures, they are busy creating their lives (exactly every bit it should be), the other i had kicked off his shoes together with was travelling somewhere inwards the wilds of Central America, when would endure the adjacent fourth dimension that I would run into him? No idea! And that is every bit it should endure too. Sometimes I wishing I’d done the same – but then……I wouldn’t receive got these 2 awesome sons together with I wouldn’t endure who I am, my life would receive got been different.

Then I took a long hard aspect at my life, no life partner, no menage unit of measurement of rootage left, no-one available to go amongst (at to the lowest degree non exterior of Australia) a line of piece of job solid that wasn’t earning me whatever coin together with to all intents together with purposes no futurity amongst much fun inwards it, except on those strange occasions when I would larn together amongst friends. Yes I receive got amazing friends who volition ever endure at that topographic point for me together with I love them all dearly, I receive got my writing together with connections amongst swain poets together with writers, but they all receive got lives, responsibilities together with families of their own. It seemed that I was the only i amongst no skillful argue to remain inwards i place.

So many people larn to this indicate inwards their lives, a vague futurity amongst footling or no utilization zippo to create except gardening together with reading (and a few other hobbies hither together with there). There is a fourth dimension together with identify for that, but I wasn’t create for it yet. I was an emotional mess after many years of stress together with sitting some at abode wasn’t going to help.

So………………………

Once all the legal problems amongst my brother’s menage unit of measurement were over I re-assessed my situation. I could remain inwards my line of piece of job solid together with create the daily routine affair but I didn’t desire to create that. I didn’t desire to sit down some waiting for individual to endure available for social time. There were likewise many memories together with likewise much sorrow, likewise much grief together with means likewise much thinking fourth dimension – non only was my menage unit of measurement of rootage gone to greener pastures but thence were many dearest friends – life is short, life is unpredictable, together with yet life should silent endure fun.

So…………………………

I became the Golden Oldie traveller.
I rented out my house.
I packed my bags.
I hugged my friends farewell.
I started writing a blog.
And took off on a life mission for 12 months to run into the basis together with re-align my body, heed together with spirit.

I had dreamed of this all my life together with hither I was doing it. Much after than I would receive got wished, peradventure it would also receive got been prissy to receive got a travelling partner but none around, however, I am mobile together with non likewise old, thence I tin silent create some fun stuff, amongst only a few limitations together with I’ll endure darned if I’m going to non create things only because at that topographic point is no-one to portion it with. Anyway, travelling amongst others tin endure a tricky line of piece of job organisation every bit I flora out inwards some earlier, shorter travel, you lot receive got to endure real careful amongst whom you lot direct to travel, sometimes it is amend to only go alone. So off I went, initially amongst my 2 sons together with missy – inwards – police for a few weeks to receive got role of my mother’s ashes abode to Dalmatia, together with thence off on my own, exploring the world.

So what receive got I been doing?

So far inwards 10 months –
17 countries
21 cities
iv islands
iii lakes
half dozen + villages
half dozen cities, 1 conference together with a whole lot of music together with poesy to go, before returning abode at the destination of 12 months for farther re-assessment.

I receive got seen places I never planned to see, I receive got been to places I receive got dreamed of all my life. I heard Andrea Bocelli sing nether the Tuscan moon, walked on soil where ancient gods together with goddesses walked. I receive got seen palaces together with villages together with fields of reddish poppies, I hugged trees inwards the Vienna woods, saw the destruction of the 2013 European floods, saw the results of WWII inwards Dresden, stood on the spy twain inwards Potsdam, had some of the best java together with some of the worst. I receive got walked on Elvis’ carpets, touched his schoolhouse friend, stayed where the Delta blues were born together with got to a greater extent than than a footling drunkard on Hand Grenades. I met some of the virtually amazing people inwards my travels, of all ages (including an inspirational ninety yr one-time solo traveller) many of these people are straight off lifelong friends. I shared the realisation of my dream of the Blue grotto amongst my children together with spent much fourth dimension exploring Serbia, the reason where my parents grew up, I walked inwards their footsteps. I stayed amongst friends I haven’t seen inwards a lifetime, sang dizzy Swedish crayfish songs, route tripped amongst an one-time schoolhouse friend inwards the USA, ate breakfast piece watching mini eruptions from a volcano, listened to some of the best music inwards the virtually unlikely places, saw sunrises together with sunsets all over the world, managed to grab upwards amongst the children i to a greater extent than fourth dimension together with turned 63 inwards Antigua Guatemala.

Of course, I photographed absolutely everything I could. H5N1 prissy mix of travelling amongst people, travelling lonely together with existence supported past times my friends at abode via the magic of social networking, thence I knew that they were all travelling amongst me inwards spirit together with they knew I was safe.

Yes, I receive got escaped God’s Waiting Room for 12 months, together with I would similar to invite every other Golden Oldie out at that topographic point to bring together me inwards to a greater extent than travel. It doesn’t receive got to endure for 12 months, you lot only receive got to leave of absence of that front end door together with go somewhere, anywhere that is different, for whatever length of fourth dimension you lot want. More than probable I won’t create 12 months again, it’s a long fourth dimension to endure away from home, but go I will, knowing that my Commonwealth of Australia volition endure waiting for me each fourth dimension I return.

So God’s waiting room volition only receive got to hold off a footling longer for me, at that topographic point is a basis out hither to explore, come upwards bring together me. And peradventure my favourite chorus lines from that beautiful Robert Plant vocal volition relate to you lot too…

‘Somebody said they saw me, swinging the basis past times the tail Bouncing over a white cloud, killing the blues.’