Slow n Steady wins the race – Let the race be with ourselves, for ourselves, to be ourselves……rather than(?)

Osna – the talented Turtle which set me on to write this blog…..way tooooooo cute!
I have started collecting my story characters & naming them too – a book in the pipeline?
Maybe, maybe not!!!
The sketch courtesy is of course, my talented Sis!!!

Each of us can have our own bucket list of what we want to race for. Mine is long and includes amongst other things to be able to leave a legacy behind me. I often wondered how I would be able to do it.

**Its easier in the kindergarten – for life is simple – just a food choice……the cares and worries of the other half of the population mean nothing to a 6 year old!**
**(Chart courtesy is my work done some years ago)**
**But since those years were long past, my choices did not have to be just healthy but right too!!!**

I wasn’t the richest in the world, which meant I did not have loads of money to pick a cause or a charity.

I wasn’t from a royal lineage which allowed me to have a silver spoon in my mouth even before I wailed for the first time.

I wasn’t into politics either, so I did not have a political party nor a following nor connections with industrialists, bureaucrats, the rest of the good and not so good part of society.

I wasn’t any young bright scion from any established iconic or recent novea rich industrialists’ family to be privy to a nasty bank balance due to my prized birth.

So, it got me thinking how I could leave my mark, my legacy behind. It was during my, many such moments spent in solitude with myself and my thoughts that I chanced upon thoughts which dated back several decades. It got me thinking that if I had the power to change something, what would that be and what would I do first.

I did not take more than a second to arrive at an answer: Change or undo all that I felt was wrong or wasn’t being done the right way around me.

This was fantastic. For how noble I was!!

**A simple emoticon could sum up an entire activity’s importance for the l’le ones………**
………….but for us to be balanced in not just food but our thoughts and actions requires sound judgement from our side and lots of judgements from onlookers, who needn’t be poking their noses into our business anyways!!!
**(Chart courtesy from my work done several years ago)**

But then the pragmatist inside me jumped up from slumber and nudged me sarcastically to ask: How in practical terms will you do this? Which brought me back to where I had started yet again.

But I thought hard and fast for even with no fancy trimmings to my life of all the fun stated above, I was quite the star of my family. I was doted on and admired amongst my small yet significant group of friends and as an absolutely common man of this country had my most ordinary life spanning in front of me and with my education, everything seemed like a canvas for me to paint on.

Sometimes one has to see inwardly to understand ourselves and once that capability & expertise we gain, then we get the deterity and the skill to have the laudable quality to see the world outside in a different perspective!
Standing inside the Cathedral Caves in South Island made me appreciate the extra-ordinary beauty outside with a new viewpoint!

Paint. I did. Did a huge variety of work in small districts of my state, with children, police personal families, semi-government organisations and since I always did it voluntarily and honorarily – my motivation never dipped. For I was in it because I wanted to be, not because of the money, not because of anyone else but myself.

So, I had decided, who’d run my race with me. Well, JUST ME.