13-03-2006, 07:49 PM
I was chatting to a friend last weekend and she was saying how amazing she thought I was that I could just pack up things and arrive here with one suitcase and make a life for myself ( like a lot of us have). She asked if I had always been like that, just having the guts to do things.
So... it got me thinking. I don't think of myself as a particularly "go getter" type of person, but also not a doormat for anyone. Then thought back to my childhood. On school holidays I actually asked my parents to send me on camps to Hobbiton on Hogsback (anyone else go there?). If I could not go there I went off to my Nan's house or to my cousins, for whatever reason I chose to be away from home. Then at 20 I went to Durban on holiday (having been born in East London), went back to EL and moved to Durban. And now I find myself in the UK.
So now I find myself pondering on this - what has made me this "wanderer" this person who feels she is not really settled. My parents were not the type to move around ,they never went further than Cape Town or Joburg on holiday, so where has this come from?
Anyone thought back to things they do that seem to stem from their childhood?
Maybe I just have too much time on my hands and think too much :p
So... it got me thinking. I don't think of myself as a particularly "go getter" type of person, but also not a doormat for anyone. Then thought back to my childhood. On school holidays I actually asked my parents to send me on camps to Hobbiton on Hogsback (anyone else go there?). If I could not go there I went off to my Nan's house or to my cousins, for whatever reason I chose to be away from home. Then at 20 I went to Durban on holiday (having been born in East London), went back to EL and moved to Durban. And now I find myself in the UK.
So now I find myself pondering on this - what has made me this "wanderer" this person who feels she is not really settled. My parents were not the type to move around ,they never went further than Cape Town or Joburg on holiday, so where has this come from?
Anyone thought back to things they do that seem to stem from their childhood?
Maybe I just have too much time on my hands and think too much :p