The Point of Me
Hello, Thank you for reading my first post. I gave up blogging several years ago when going through some life changing experiences, and had no intention of returning. That was until I read an article by a woman in her sixties questioning her purpose in life, and how a series of losses had left her shattered. After four decades of making eye watering amounts of money, only to lose most of it in a risky business venture post retirement, the loss of her husband, and estrangement of her only son, she spiralled down into a severe depression. Believing there was no point to her life anymore, she slowly relinquished hope of finding a reason to carry on. Her story resonated with me, because I'd been there. I was forced into an impoverished early retirement at 58, alone, in house that I could no longer manage. My family had left home to start their own adult lives leaving me to cut a new path through the confusion of compound loss. Well meaning pe...