How sad is this?

10 years and I repeat 10 years ago my husband (then Fiancée) and I got passports.  The plan was to get married, go somewhere exotic on honeymoon (obviously) and then possibly travel, who knows!  But whatever our plans were, they would most definitely involve passports!

Well, 10 yrs., 1 house, 2 kids, 2 cars and 2 careers later…. Our passports are about to expire and they don’t have a single (and let me repeat that too) SINGLE stamp in them.  What’s up with that?

I often tell friends about the power of “The Secret”, that what you put out into the universe is what you’ll get back, like attracts like etc etc.  While I do firmly believe in the power of The Secret, I’ve never really put it into practise.  Well, now I am!  Come hell or high water, my next passport will have a stamp in it (preferably more than 1) and hopefully from somewhere exotic!

I’m so sure that in the next few years we’ll be travelling (after all, I’ve publically committed to going to Zanzibar and the USA – no turning back now!), I’ve decided to not only renew our passports, but get some for the kids as well!  So come Saturday morning, the whole Beckley clan will be paying Bellville Home Affairs a visit – I’m sure that’s going to require a blog post all on its own!

While the aim of my blog is about me “getting a life”.  I’m also hoping that people who read it, will examine their own lives and perhaps challenge themselves to experience life a little more.  Why should having a bond, car payments and kids in school signal the end of experiencing “life”?  Surely, a month away from school to tour Europe is far more worthwhile than reading about it in a text book?  Well, that’s my thinking anyway. 

The Secret says one shouldn’t worry about the “How”.  All we need to do is put it out there and the universe will respond accordingly!  Well I’m putting it out there.  I’m not worried about HOW we’re going to get to the States, Europe or even East London in December!  All I’m saying is that before I’m 40, I will have been there, done that, got the passport stamp!

So no more “coulda, woulda, shoulda” – now it’s just “I’m gonna”.  While “I will not die an unlived life” – I sure as hell am not going to die with an unstamped passport!