Just last week I had to adult (for the record, I hate 'adult-ing' alone), realigning my sons' compasses. Some are nonnegotiable - work and school immediately come to mind. With every activity in which you engage, a piece of your precious time is spent, taking its place in the pile at the bottom of your hourglass. ![]() Heads down, rushing to the next task on our schedules: school, standardized tests, church responsibilities, work, baseball practice, homework - rinse and repeat tomorrow. And even though the road to hell is evidently paved with them, we continue to lay bricks along the way. His brother will be an eighth grader in the fall.Įvery day we start with good intentions. In less than two months, a high schooler will reside here seems just yesterday his dad and I were dropping him off at kindergarten. In my house, unfortunately, life seems to be moving pretty fast. What are you doing with the 24 hours you're given each day? Hopefully you can gaze upon the ever-growing pile of spent moments with a smile, because you can never get them back. All you can do is enjoy every grain, embracing the glittery smoothness for what it is. Moments sift through you can't stop the sand you can't slow it down. Nothing like losing your partner, help mate and best friend unexpectedly to jump-start living, real living. I'm approaching another birthday (you don't have to send me a card), and the date always seems to put me in a reflective mood. Make sure you follow me on social media where you can keep right up to date.'Life moves pretty fast.' That quote, from one of my favorite movies of all time, 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' plays continuously through my mind. Please bear with me for a few weeks whilst I get up to speed with running a website I’ve never done this before. I want to continually improve and challenge myself and, hopefully, someone will be inspired by my story enough to follow their own dreams. Instagram is great but I find that I always want to add words to give the photos context. I had to leave the apparent safety of my ‘career’ and see more of the world for myself.I intend to use this blog as an outlet for not only my photography but also my writing. Whilst I won’t be selling all of my belongings and living a minimalist lifestyle, the book helped me make my decision. Whilst I was pretty much bedbound for eight weeks I read an excellent book, one that I’d highly recommend, ‘Everything that Remains’ written by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus together known as The Minimalists. Luckily for me, it also scares my partner. I have friends who are married, some have had children and many own their own homes none of that applies to me and the thought of it, if I’m honest, scares me a little. During my initial recovery, I spent a lot of time thinking about where my life was currently at and what lay ahead. I’m determined to come back stronger than ever. ![]() The operation was quite invasive and will take 12 months to fully recover from. I’d been having problems for a while but I tried my best to ignore them. Sometimes though your personal happiness is found when you escape your comfort zone.Įarlier this year, I was given the devastating news that I needed surgery on my hip. It is rewarding to know that your work directly helps someone in their time of need. ![]() I set out at 15 years old to become a lawyer and that’s exactly what I achieved. This is quite obviously the path that so many follow and what we are taught is the ‘right path’ to take. My path so far has taken me from school to sixth form, to university to law college, to a desk in an office where I have worked for the last six years. Coming from a Forces background, I am quite used to change and new surroundings maybe that’s what started my interest in travel. I still look back to our time in Cyprus with such fond memories of ultimate freedom. For the last year, I’ve really been focusing on travel photography and trying to build up a following on Instagram.In the first 12 years of my life, I lived in five different places including Cyprus. My name is Jamie Paddock, 28 years old with a passion for travel, music, photography and just generally being creative. ![]() As I sit here and write this post, it is less than four weeks before I leave my life as a qualified lawyer behind and start exploring this world we are so lucky to be a part of. The quote above is from the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off which was released in 1986, before I was even born, but the reality is that these words have helped me make the most life-changing decision so far.
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