Not that I’m counting, but in 265 days I turn 40.
If there’s anything that I’ve learned in all my time on this earth, it is this: it’s never too late to change EVERYTHING.
On the outside, my life looks pretty shiny. I have a good job, a beautiful family and plenty of my favourite biscuits in the cupboard.
However, motherhood – while fulfilling and blissful and everything I ever dreamed it would be – still hasn’t erased the part of me that has some stuff left to do.
In fact, I have a lot of goals to achieve, and it makes life pretty exciting.
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This year I’m about to achieve one of my biggest ever life goals. I’m about to complete my second post-graduate course.
The first one was just for fun. It was a creative writing course that I did from home in between nappy changes and cleaning up constant kid messes. But this year, things are getting real. This year I enrolled in a research degree because I’ve always had a secret desire to do a PhD in creative writing.
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I’m not sure what the specific topic will be yet, but what I am sure of is the fact that at the end of this year, I will have opened the door to achieving an ambition I’ve had for years.
Go me, right?
Don’t get me wrong. It is really, really hard and some days I have a meltdown. On other days I just cry or turn my computer off and watch Real Housewives of Melbourne instead of studying. But that’s only because it means so much to me. I’m not taking time away from my kids to do an okay job. I have to do well.
I have 162 days until my thesis is due (again, not that I’m counting) and after that, I’m going to have to get me some new goals.