My recent decluttering on my house unearthed a number of things I had forgotten about.
One thing that caused great reflection, was a series of house plans, one for the 1st acre block we purchased in Jamberoo for the princely sum of $16,000 when I first got married. An acre block that would be worth millions now. Other plans were for houses I never got to build either.
Regrets I have had a few.
The dream – that could have been
We sold that acre block to fund our first foray into farming. I wasn’t happy but that’s what women who are bought up in the patriarchal world of farming did in those days.
I did buy houses, for other people to live in. I even bought a house for my sister. The others became investment properties that we later sold to fund farming expansions and even the purchase of two farms that both got sold to fund the expansion of our milk business so it would support our son to join the business.
I found this picture of the Lotus my brother built. My father ( fully supported by our mother) insisted that me and my sister help fund the purchase of the car kit. Its seemed a perfectly logical request to him – after all that’s what farm women do.
We don’t inherit farms, we fund the dreams of men apparently.
It took me a long time to change that mindset and I am so glad I have ( it was a big shock to my family)
In 2012 an opportunity arose to decide what dream I could fund for me and I took it.
Now its time for new directions and I am very excited.
Are you making the same mistakes as me – are you funding others people dreams. If so, this post is a request from me to not leave it too late to follow your dreams
