“I always have this nightmare that I’m late for an exam or
have failed an exam or not prepared for one” Our plane had issues and we were
asked to disembark so we filled the time with random chatter in the airport
lounge. It was unbelievably surreal as my recurring dream is missing my plane,
losing my suitcase, passport or ticket, forgetting my suitcase, passport or
ticket. There’s always some reason in those dreams as to why I can’t get on the
plane, why I can’t fly. I have yet to have a dream where I am in an airport and
actually embark the plane. I only get these dreams when I’ve been feeling a
little lost in life, when I’m not quite sure I’m on the right path or I feel like
I’m being left behind. I haven’t had them for a long time. The situation was
made more surreal when I realised whilst sitting in the lounge that just before
we got on the plane the first time and I was heading down the walkway ready to
board I was thinking that I really felt that my life was finally going in the
right direction, piece by piece, step by step.
I have a sense of freedom that I hadn’t felt for a long
time. I don’t answer to anyone. My weekends are spent how I want to spend them.
I have a job that is secure and pays well. I know where I will be sleeping
almost every night. I have goals and ambitions that aren’t being pushed back
and back and back. They’re being achieved. People’s opinions of how THEY think
I should live my life are being ignored. I am answerable to myself, not to
them. I will choose and walk my own path. I make the decisions. I choose to
keep my Landcruiser. I choose to keep my original cows. I choose to live so far
out of town. I live with those choices and I don’t need to justify them.
Finally the call to re-embark the plane came over the
speakers. Conversations about university, camping and crazy people at work came
to a halt. Before too long we were taking off, heading West and I was falling
asleep to a sound I’d been hearing since I was in my mothers womb.
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