Changes every day
31 May 2008 | Diary | By: Richard
I’ve been back here in Witham for over seven months now. The time has flown by. I have only just now realised that I have been back here longer than I was at St. Lawrence. It’s a slower pace of life over there, so no wonder six months took so long to pass.
Now it looks as if I will be on the move again. I have decided to break out and get my own place. It’s been a lot of fun living with Lois and I’m sad that this “era” is coming to an end - but we’re both moving on. I wonder what will become of this place? It has been a happy home. I hope it will continue to be for someone else.
I reached this decision last Thursday evening. Once the decision was made I began to get quite excited about the prospect of living on my own, having my own space and all my own things around me, but at the same time it is also more than a little daunting. I have always been quite self-contained and content to live in my own “space” - I didn’t need other people around me. I could be happy in my own company, with a book or a film of a dvd or cd and something nice to eat. But on holiday in Norfolk back in April, by the time the Thursday of the week had arrived and I had gone a whole two days without speaking to anyone else or having any form of interaction with another person, I started to implode. That experience now makes me wonder how I will cope with living alone. I’m happy but I’m sad, to coin a phrase. But you - we all - have to keep travelling down the road of life, wherever the twists and turns may take us.
Hopefully the next leg of my journey won’t take me too far from this place.