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Dawn Knox – A rearranger of words into something hopefully meaningful…

Listen Up, Me!

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Auntie Ann and me

Auntie Ann and me

What would you say to yourself if you could go back in time?

That’s me on the left, with my Auntie Ann. What would I have told myself if I’d been able?

That’s the question the Muse It Up Publishing authors are answering right now on Sunday Musings Blog here although we were asked to say what we’d tell the 13-17 year old me. But I think I’d have told a younger me than the one who was aged 13, just so I was prepared. I feared growing up and didn’t think I’d be much good at it. Peter Pan was one of my favourite characters and I’d have loved to have been like him, not realising I’d have been left behind as everyone else moved on.

And here’s what I put on the Sunday Musings Blog:

“I know you find the idea of growing up scary and beyond imagining but the world isn’t full of infallible adults, like you think. It’s full of large children, who are mostly trying to do their best. And as such, you will have a place amongst them. You will make mistakes, like everyone else and that’s fine. Better than that, making mistakes is good. It means you’ve tried. Learn from your mistakes and move forward. Don’t see them as failures that inhibit you. See them as opportunities. In fact, see everything in your life that at first sight appears to be negative as an opportunity for good. The way you view something determines what it actually is – look at a disadvantage as if it is an advantage and that’s what it will become.

Take part. Take control. And if something is not as you would have hoped, change it if you can. If not, view it differently so you see its positive aspects.”

Sadly, I know the 13-17 me wouldn’t have taken in a word of this!

What would you have said?

In my story ‘Daffodil and the Thin Place’, Daffodil is in the bizarre position of living through times before she’d been born. I wonder what she’d have said to herself, if she’d caught up, rather than looked back! ‘Daffodil and the Thin Place’ can be found here.

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