Since a child I have been driven to explore, look beyond and search out change. This took me to the Fiji Islands on Volunteer Service Abroad at eighteen and to Italy after university, where I stayed for the next decade. I had been out to conquer the world but instead met the man who was to be my lifelong companion. While he studied and did military service, I taught English and travelled.
But the settling down bug caught up with me. I returned to New Zealand husband in tow, bought a house, started a business in the fashion industry and had a baby.
For many years we worked, worried, renovated houses and homeschooled our son.
However, the need to chill out came back and now we still work, while our son finishes his education at school but we worry less and enjoy life more.
Roll on the next fifty years.
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