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Tim Peake - A true inspiration!

23/6/2016

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Looking at the pictures of the fireball local hero Tim Peake (he is from my home town)  returned to Earth in this week reminded me that despite the dangers involved I always wanted to be an astronaut. And hearing a contestant on a BBC quiz describe himself as a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter pilot made me recall that I wanted to be one of those as well. In fact, there are a huge number of jobs I would like to have had, or experiences I would like to gone through but never did. What a shame I never tried at school and then later on spent too much time getting drunk and so never gave myself a chance to do any of these things. So do I look back on my life with sadness and a sense of failure? Anything but!

Negative thoughts and waves of despair are the sort of friends you find at the bottom of a bottle of wine or beer or spirits. I remember sitting night after night as I got steadily more drunk and wishing I had done more with my life, and then never doing anything with the life that I had sitting there with me and desperately waiting to be enjoyed. What a loser I was.

But now when I look back I celebrate all the positive things that have happened to me, and that I have achieved; and despite the fact I am now too old to do many of those things I wanted to do when I was young (such as fly in the Navy or go to space), I plan with a sense of excitement all the things I can still do. I never had time for any of these wonderfully positive thoughts when I was still drinking, the alcohol was always in the way and holding me back.

Now I have such clear and lucid thoughts and such a tremendous sense of freedom - if I close my eyes I can fly wherever I want. It's not quite the same as a genuine trip to the ISS, but you know, the feeling is just the same! 

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