0.01%

I am free!  Read into that, unemployed, but free!  I have spent the last few days binging on Netflix, staying in my PJ's and spending the days with my girls (Lily and Poppy, my cats, I am a mad old cat lady).

In between doing this I lunched with an old friend and we ate, we drank, we laughed and we reflected on the last 15 years.  And he made a comment that I could not disagree with.  He said, we, as in he and I (and his family of two beautiful children and lovely wife) are in the top 0.01% of the population (in Sydney).  We suffer no financial hardship.  We can pay our bills and we do not worry where the next dollar comes from.  We can have lunch in nice places, have drinks with friends, buy nice things for our home and just take it day by day.  The only things we want for are things we do not need.  We want them but we do not need them.

We are not lucky.  We made our own luck.  We worked hard.  And we are in an okay position in life.  But it was hard work and sacrifice to get us to this point.

So as I go onto the next chapter, what ever that is, I need to remember that.

Axxxx