Life is What Happens When You're Busy Making Plans
How on earth does a person decide to go back to school at 66, rather than reach for the pipe and slippers and sit watching the world go by? My songwriting career didn't start until a few weeks after I went busking on my 47th birthday to overcome a lifelong fear of singing within earshot of another human being. I would have been content with just one song that I could call my own but, once I wrote the first, it was like taking out a stopper and the others just fell out. By my 48th birthday, I'd written over 50 more. Having left school, just short of my sixteenth birthday, I was happy to put that bad experience as far behind me as I could. I had an interest in photography and, while I managed to make it a career for almost 30 years, pay my mortgage and support my family, I had no love for the business and felt that I still hadn't found the right path for me. They say that when you find what you love and can earn a living doing it, then you'll never have t