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What I Want In My Life
When I was a child, all I really wanted was, well, I can’t actually remember. Lollies was probably pretty high on the list though, I would imagine. There might have been clothing items as I headed into being a teenager, yeah, there was, I can actually remember the particular pair of jeans I’d wanted when I was about thirteen or fourteen. Green cords, very hip! But not, actually …
Well, I was too young to actually know what ‘very hip’ meant, and I probably wouldn’t have thought about this issue in those words. It was the seventies, but being hip was not something I’d aspired to be. If I could be not the one people teased and laughed at, that would be enough.
So back then, I obviously hadn’t set myself for big things in my life. I got a job when I was sixteen, so I had enough money to buy whatever clothing items I wanted, and with my job being in the city (Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia), there was a huge range of clothing available to me …
So as a teen, I had what I’d wanted, something to do that wasn’t having to go to school, and enough money to do whatever I wanted to do. But what was that? Nothing big, or interesting, really. I had no hobbies, beyond reading, which is still one of my hobbies. But that was about it. I can barely remember that time now, and certainly there were some things that happened, that I certainly didn’t want in my…
