LIFE'S DEFINING MOMENTS
The unpredictability of defining moments means we get no choice and usually no warning when they will happen. Happy or sad, busy or relaxed, it doesn’t matter one iota how we are feeling at the time they present and there is nothing to do except stand and face them head on. These are the occasions when we get to find out what stuff we are made of and of what we are capable. In my life, I’ve had many defining moments, but the very first one was huge and has, both positively and negatively, coloured every day of my life since. In my blog, My Dad I wrote about my father’s untimely death, ravaged, as his body was, by the secondary complications of Type I diabetes. The knowledge of his impending demise was kept from him (as was thought best in those days), but Mum had known it was coming for three years. The year before Dad’s death, Mum attempted suicide. I only knew that’s what it was because I came home to find my father bewildered and sobbing, ‘Why would she do that?’ It is