What are your biggest challenges?
So what will be the challenges
I face in the New Year?
First up there’s accepting
That I need to change at all.
You get to be a certain age
You get stuck in your ways.
I know I’m less than perfect
But I’ve always been this way.
You can just give up trying
Accept things as they are.
Must there always be a challenge?
Do we need to raise the bar?
Too often I’m a passenger
I do not pull my weight
I don’t initiate or plan that much
I more just tag along.
I’m very bad at friendship
I fail to keep in touch
If others made no effort
I’d not go out that much.
I’d not say that I’m lazy
I do my share of work
But mostly stuff that interests me
And other stuff I’ll shirk.
I’m loving my retirement
And time to call my own
But do I have a purpose?
I’d have to say I don’t.
So time for reappraisal
To think through what I’m for.
There won’t be changes quickly
But I’ll let you know the score.
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