How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?
Despite only being in my 30s I can reflect and recognise that with each new decade one’s priorities do shift. What was important to me at 15, is different at 25, is different at 35 and I’m sure will be different in the subsequent years.
As we age our perspective on life is constantly shifting, but is that due to time or is it due to having more experience and thus more opportunity for significant life events?
Would I feel this lack of ambition for my career, lack of desire to have a family or even a social life if my mum hadn’t died? I think not. Her death made me recognise that my career wasn’t that important to me, I could never approach motherhood without her support and some of my friends weren’t there for me in the way I thought they’d be.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not unhappy. The life i have carved out for myself is good, but perhaps not what 15 year old me imagined.
Sarah Hargreaves 
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