About Conclusions

I must admit that this blog has been of enormous benefit to me personally and also frightening, I am sure to some of you. While names have been changed where necessary (no, not really, I’m only saying that), I have received much support from many readers in many parts of the world. Alaska, Russia, Japan, USA, various European countries, South American countries and even a few in Africa to mention. A truly global feeling, in which many of you have recognised some of the events as being similar to their own, or, exactly the same. Which suggests we are not that different. Just in different locations. I am sure many readers have wondered what goes on in my head, but, because of your support, I have enjoyed reviewing some strange and excellent experiences and, at the same time, developed some good practices.  I am sure those of you relying on translation programmes however, must have come up with some very unusual phrases, in my use of the English language. I was sent this by someone in Brazil trying to understand a phrase, ‘I was hung out to dry’ (which means I was left to take the blame by others) but via the translation programme, it became in Spanish, ‘Hacia fueracolgaron para secarme’ which in English if you translated it directly back you get ‘Towards outside they hung me to dry to me’. So not only was what I was sometimes saying confusing, it could be even more confusing in foreign languages (when using translation programmes). me

But, as mentioned, towards a conclusion. In the last year of writing this blog I have been drawing on my many childhood experiences and some incidents from my youth, from some years ago. Many years ago. In fact, I am now in my fiftieth year (and living my fifty-first, since we celebrate our birthday after the year is completed. Strange that we don’t start as zero do we? But with the blog ending and my random birthday date approaching. I say random, in that my birth certificates (yes, I said certificates. I have two. Officially), don’t match, and neither does the actual calendar date I was born (mentioned in blog 5^th September 2012). But that is another chain of events. And as I get older and I have reviewed many experiences and lessons learnt in my youth, during this last year, and I have especially realised how many ways I have learnt the various lessons on life. I have had some thrilling experiences (which I haven’t necessarily included in this blog) but, importantly, I have had some unusual ones, they have added together to bring me to this moment. I know have in my mind (yes, a scary place) values and concepts which I try to apply to my living style. They are not rigid rules (even though many think I am black and white in my choices) They are not like the list of 42 lessons from the 90 year old woman (yes, I have received that email many times. Some good lessons in them though). But they are important to me, and more importantly, how I treat others. Why I value my close friends and perhaps, why they see some value in me. So tomorrow, the final of this blog, I will summarise what lessons this past year (and the past fifty) have resulted in.

(Concluding tomorrow)