Grace is in learning when to shift gears
I have always wanted to live and grow older with grace! Probably this has to do with my convent school upbringing where grace was an essential part of being a lady :) I have always been that person who prefers to have everything under her control, the person who always knew what she had to do and who progressed towards those goals, personal or professional, with gusto. The one giving directions, supporting others not as focussed and encouraging them to keep moving. More or less, always in top gear - sometimes even when I might have liked a breather! And then I decided to move onto a new chapter and life taught me new lessons. I grew. Any journey can never be always on top gear - it shouldn't. The other gears are there for appropriate reasons and they need to be used when the time is right. I learnt, at work, to step back gradually when the young and the restless were keen to take on the reigns. Holding on then would have been perceived as resistin...