Rambling along 22 - unfinished..

I should point out that this month - ramblings - are just that; ramblings from my mind over the last two months (July and August) and do not necessarily represent me today. But they do constitute in their own way a part of The Archives. This is explained, i think, here.

On January the 1^st, 1980 I was 27 days short of my 25^th birthday.

10 years later I wrote in my diary – “Happy New Year. New decade, new diary. A lot of things can happen in 10 years…”

In 1980 I had seen the New year begin from the outside of a party in Oaxaca, Mexico, ten years later I was on the outside edge of a party in Portobello road, London.

Although a lot of things can happen, HAD happened - I hadn’t learnt how to move from that outside edge.

I still haven’t.

In 2000 I’m not sure where I was, but more importantly I forgot to look back over the previous decade and take stock.

In 1990 – two partnerships had been and gone, I’d grown up and fallen in love.

By 2000 I had become a dad.

In 2010 I again forgot to look back and take stock – just too busy I guess.

Or maybe it’s something you do in your thirties; maybe taking stock is what it’s all about.

In your forties and fifties perhaps you just move the stock around a bit.

In 2010, when the New Year slipped in I’m pretty sure I was way outside of the edge of the party going on in London.

I’m often happier now out on that edge, or a bit beyond.

But 2000?

It’s bothering me.

I need to look.

Hang on……