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Something I Wish I Could Have Told My Younger Self
I think I would have told myself to make my own decisions. Don’t do what other people wanted me to do. I wanted to have a “gap year” — it wasn’t called that back then, but I wanted to have time to decide what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to have a working holiday travelling overseas to France and England.
My father wanted me to go straight to University. I didn’t know what I wanted to be so I did an arts/science degree. Only one other person in the whole University did this. I went from my father making decisions for me to a boyfriend forcing decisions on me, to a husband telling me what to do.
I’ve had to learn the hard way I have to make decisions for myself even if they’re not the right ones.
Tagging Keeley’s clan — Autistic Widower (“AJ”), Brett Jenae Tomlin, Harry Hogg, The Sturg, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Richard Bailey, Marilyn Flower, Trisha Faye, Karen Schwartz, NancyO, Robert G. Longpré, Katie Michaelson, Bernie Pullen, Laure Dorsemaine, Debika Kumari, Michelle Jimerson Morris, redkitewrites, Celia McKinley, Charisse Tyson, Julie KingGood, Amy Frances, Julia A. Keirns, Ravyne Hawke, Pamela Oglesby, Toni the Talker, Cathy Cremer, Kayla Tackett, Pat Romito LaPointe, Anna Itzel Cazita, Misty Rae, Karen Hofmann, Deb Palmer, Susie Winfield, Vincent Pisano and of course me, Adrienne Beaumont.
