It’s been a full on 5 years but the “twin / child” component in there has only been a small part of what I am referring to as “full on”. Like most – my last 5 years hasn’t been without life highs and lows and some really, really challenging periods that we just have to find a path through.
But reflecting last night around 8pm - the time the twins were born, I could remember that moment crystal clear, I then found myself reflecting on what our family circumstances were 5 years ago…. then what they were 5 years before that, then chunking back another 5 years and remembering what was going on 5 years before that, I kept chunking back 7 times until I got to when I was age 6 (I am 41 now) and really the whole lot was crystal clear!
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| Our twins Kele and Beau, turn 5. How will these little guys "chunk back" in time and remember their life. |
It quite amazed me – firstly how when you look back retrospectively how time really does fly but more so – how at each “5 year point” it seemed there was always some challenge on my plate and how at the time those challenges seemed difficult but at 41 looking back most seem easy by comparison of what my “challenges” are today. How interesting….
So my point is, clearly we will always “feel” like we have challenges – its normal life, but because time does fly we had better be careful how we are living through those challenges. It would be so awful if our broad memory of things is one whole excruciating painful challenge !
So last night as my twins turned 5 it was just a lovely little “juicy” raising of my own consciousness of how I am living through my completely normal day to day challenges that will always be there and made me realise to just make the process - my life - happy, not one long excruciating painful challenge. xoxoxo
