So I am sitting on Akupara surrounded by dust and bits and pieces of boat, under a white shrink wrap greenhouse. It is 9:10 in the morning and I am already sweating and I haven’t started working yet, and a question keeps going through my mind based on a comment I saw on TV last night.
The comment was from a famous movie star and she was being asked how she got her start in the industry and she went on to tell the interviewer about her start and summed it all up with a final comment to the effect of she never really had a backup plan.
I can relate. I don’t have a backup plan either. I guess the backup plan would be to sell Akupara, downsize to a small apartment when the kids leave and spend the rest of our days living the dream. What that dream means to me is perpetual punishment and I am unable to wrap my head around it which I guess also means I would spend the rest of my days depressed and angry for never having accomished MY dream.
The interviewer remarked to her that is the only way to go if you truly want to be successful at something and it obviously worked for her. Here is praying that it works for us as well.
And with that, back to work, on my “backup” plan.