It’s amazing how one twist of fate can really alter certain goals and somtimes (although at the time difficult to deal with) open the doors to new things. I spent the bulk of my life thinking I wanted to do medicine probably because my mother bombarded me with that idea, and I retained it but after entering university late in the piece, at 27 and finding it a struggle - because I wasn’t interested in labs that much - it also coincided with having to move house and get a full time job.

These challenges in life shape a person’s identity and adaptability, sorting out the strong from the weak. Sometimes I think it takes more nerve to adapt to sudden change than to smoothly sail through and complete each proposed goal.