My friends on the subject...

Some contributions from friends:

she put a name to my thingie: The lovely Marie-Julie whose blog should be in all of your bookmarked ones by now anyway! (Especially you music lovers out there!)
http://marie-julie-einfach-leben.blogspot.com/ (the post that starts with tallinn-wien-barcelona-helsinki-paris

Dominican Francis sent me a FB note which touched the subject but that gives a positive twist to my previous post and at the same time to my day! Thank you Francis! tq! :) A copy below

Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life. Some people get struck by lightning. Some are born to sit by a river. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance.

For what it's worth, it's never too late, or in my case too early - to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit; stop whenever you want. You can change, or stay the same - there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went. You could wear, curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

(life is good... with all the highs and lows... otherwise it would be too boring)