Dear all,
I lost the love of my life 18mths ago 
My treasured Anne. Married 50yrs and so left alone now with just my thoughts. As I reflect upon not just our life together but the 23ys before hand Ive come to this realisation. When we are all born non of us are prepared for what's to come in the future. We have nothing to fall back on as experience. We were never given a text book of life at birth. As such it shouldn't really come as any surprise there are those time in our existance that we look back on and feel guilt, ignorance, regrets, and sadness. If only we could turn back the clock we say. Yet there are those wonderful times when we even surprise ourselves at our love, compassion, understanding, generously, charity, and for some - self sacrifice. We are simply a bunch of unprepared people who have - and still do - wander through life like nomads not knowing who we really are at this present moment. Perhaps you can take heart that billions of people before us have trodden this same Earth walk as we do now. And billions more after we are gone will tread the same path. All just scratching through life the best they can as we do now. We are simply human. Bless you all. And remember - be kind to yourselves. x
Geoff
