Hello @Powderfinger I wrote a long post last night after an exhiliarating day, but it failed to send and I was too tired to recompose it.
Well, that was the most exhiliarating day I have had in more years than I can remember.
I joined U3A last year and enrolled in 6 classes and volunteering, but, as I had joined when my life and mind was so severely traumatised, it all sent me into sensory overload. I dropped out, but enrolled in a one-term course of lawn bowls at the local club.
I had never been a fan but, from the outset, the U3A group who had also enrolled were a fun group. We had a great time and were sad to see it finish. Some of us have joined the club now.
One of the class invited me along for a bowl yesterday - we can drop in to practise any time - but I found myself roped into an intra-club match. We lost the first match but won when we played against the other top losing team - and $50.00 each. It was a truly great day.
When I was responding to @saltand pepper in his suicidal thoughts on Friday, I was also going through the same. Trying to help him through it helped me. It just gets so tiring sometimes going through all these waves of feeling good, then crashing into hopelessness again.
Anyway, I have worked my way through many experiences over the past decades - some good, some bad. I have learned a lot - about life, people and myself and I think, in joining the bowls club, I may have found my niche in life. Fabulous group of people - once we get the bugs ironed out. I am working ahead with that objective. Being part of a like-minded group in the real world certainly feels good.
And the club's members range in age from twenties (champions) to seniors. I'm really looking forward to getting to know everyone and become a member of a second family. I really feel that the groundwork of rebuilding my life has finished and I am now getting it out of the ground.
You're a beautiful and good person too, @Powderfinger. We all are. We just have to hang in there while we find our way.
Have a happy Sunday.
