There comes a point in your life when you wonder to yourself: “Is there more to my life than this?” Who’s to say that this is what I’m destined to be…living rather ordinarily with a job to help pay the bills, a roof over my head and a lovely man to come home to.

We’re entitled to 24 days of annual leave. Is that it? Surely, there’s more to life than working your ass off and looking forward to your 24 days of holiday which you’re apparently entitled to. Every couple of months, you book a 2 week holiday to somewhere exotic and totally different from your usual life and you escape! You escape with this belief that for those 2 weeks, you’re escaping from everything that is you and everything that makes your life the way that it is. Why create something you need to escape from?

“There has to be more…” - I say to my fellow colleagues and the instantaneous response I get from them is: “She’s young..” As if they used to think that but have sinced succumbed to the fact that this what their life is and ever will be.

There is a saying I heard many years ago: “Reach for the moon…for even if you fail, you’ll be amongst the stars”

But what if doing so means risking everything you ever hold dear to your heart? Would you still risk it? Or would you simply sit back and be grateful for what you have thus far. Even if you know, deep down, that you’re destined for something much much greater…