About

Who is responsible for this blog?

I am: Sarah.

A reassuringly, ordinary 37 year old part-time teacher, writer and mother who continues to juggle several (metaphorical*) balls in the air, follow my dreams and perhaps one day, I might even just catch them…

So why should I read your blog then Sarah?

There are a lot of people out there who try to tell us how to live our lives. I’m not going to do that. Where can we find our greatest wisdom? How much can a self-help book really help you? I think MJ** was onto something when he famously sang,

Take a look at yourself and make that change. Na na naaaah na na na nah…. Chaaaaaaaange.

But he died.
And it turns out people really do die.
All the frickin’ time.

You just don’t really think about it until it happens to you. Thinking about death and dying isn’t really associated with being a positive and happy person I guess. Now I promise this is not a grief blog but I do need to include a little background detail…

In October 2016, my Dad collapsed suddenly from a brain anyurism and died. That was it. Gone.  He wasn’t young, he wasn’t old, none of it matters, and none of it makes a difference. He was just 64. That was his time.

Time up.
Just like that…

Certainty faded.

FAST.

After that, I felt like I needed to join the dots. Get out my pencil and retrace the lines of mortality.

I questioned.
I looked.
And after a while I began to NOTICE.

I noticed when it was just me.
I liked it when it was just me.
I took pleasure in being me.
I took thanks in being me.
I feel reassured to be the reassuringly, ordinary me. Still here but perhaps with a teeny tiny bit more wisdom than before.

So that bit over with. And I am sure that there are so many other people with stories similar to mine. And maybe it’s just a bit easier, a bit less pressure to see how everyday people are suriving in this everyday world.

And the more I think about it, the everyday world is pretty amazing.

Do we really need self-help books to tell us this? Gurus or the Dalai Lama for example? No offence DL (if I can call you that) but it’s quite a bit of pressure trying to be like you.

So that is why you should read my blog.

Come and join me on my journey of self-help and social observations.

Every day I am a little bit more inspired.

I hope I can inspire you too.

 

*Have you ever seen me try to actually juggle balls? You catch my drift. Although you if it was a real drift, you wouldn’t have caught it because if you remember: I’m not very good at throwing.

**Michael Jackson RIP

A nice little quote to finish:

‘To write the ordinary, is to record the extraordinary’

John Updike

Thanks John.