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Who am I?
Well, for one thing, I have had an interesting life. I was born in Denmark, and immigrated to Australia when I was fifteen years old.
I married young and spent many years in partnership with a fascinating and very complicated man, whom I loved dearly. I’ve had one child, a son, who has long since made me a grandmother, several times over.
I have travelled the world, I have lived in many places, in several countries and I have had some amazing experiences. At 42 I became a widow with very few resources. I created and founded my own business opportunity, only to give it up after fifteen years of hard, but very satisfying work.
I have had one constant in my life, I love to write. I started to write little stories when I was less than 10 years old, and now, as a grandmother, I can look back and say; if this is a hobby, it must be a very serious hobby because it has lasted for 58 years.
At age fifteen, when my parents brought me to Australia, my life took a huge step backward. It meant that I not only had to leave my country, my friends, my education and everything I knew and treasured, I also had to leave my language along with my ambition to become a writer and a journalist. In hindsight, that was by far the most painful to me.
It took several years to become fluent in English and to regain my interest in writing, and I didn’t feel truly confident to begin writing again until my thoughts were in English as well as my speech. It’s funny, but until I was forced to change language, I had always assumed that thoughts were just that. I hadn’t realized that even our most abstract thoughts are expressed in language.
I’ll always remember a time not long after we arrived in Australia. I was awoken in the middle of the night by my mother who needed me to answer an important question. I was very sleepy and tried with all my might to answer her agitated questions … by using my very limited, broken English. Only later did it occur to me that I must have been woken in the middle of some kind of self inflicted English lesson.
By now you have probably guessed that I love language and I particularly love the English language. It is a fascinating blend of old English and European tribal languages. But unlike the structured European languages that evolved over time, English became a free flowing, unstructured, ever adaptable tool for the imagination and self expression.
I can’t remember who said it but someone once stated that the less structured a language is, the more freedom it allows for thought and expression. I’ve always remembered that because it makes so much sense.
About a year ago, I decided I needed to change my life. Retirement never suited my personality and my once reliable income was being reduced due to circumstances beyond my control. At that time I used to spend hours on my computer. It was inevitable that I would decide to start my own, worldwide home based business on the internet.
I recently found what I think is the very first article I wrote for my then home based business. It was published around twelve months ago. My misplaced optimism and inexperience was obvious right through the article. I read it with the benefit of hindsight and it was truly painful.
The article proved to me how much I have learned since then and how much I have changed. It seemed more like five years than just one.
Had I stayed in retirement I know now that I would not be the person I am today and despite all the mistakes and the debts and the heartaches, I like this version of me so much better than the old one.
My business: http://www.protrackerplus.com/3533/vereport2.html
My Blog: http://www.worldwide-home-business-opportunity.com
Kirsten Plotkin, Author
Goldcoast, Australia
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