I booked tickets to take the children to the Harry Potter Studio Tour for Rosie’s upcoming birthday. Annie and I haven’t even seen the films, so tonight we started with the first one. Of course, I can’t just watch and enjoy; I had to start thinking, philosophising and questioning. I think my philosophical nature is my greatest blessing and curse.

I thought about how good the films are, the ideas behind them and the pure genius of it all. I then thought about the author of the books and went in search online for information about her journey. A woman who sat on a train suddenly, from nowhere, birthed an idea that ran and ran until, over a few hours, she’d constructed, in some form, the entire series of Harry Potter books. Over a struggle of seven years, which saw many personal struggles, she literally turned her life around completely, purely in one moment, one infinitely small moment in time. That one thought that popped into her head changed her life, but how?

How does this happen to one person and not to all? Or does it happen to all and we just don’t listen intently enough? Or is it not meant to happen to everyone? Of course, this then led me to think about my own life, most especially how I’ve been in complete limbo for almost four years, waiting for an epiphany about what to do with my life, and sometimes even what to do with my day.

I don’t want to just work in a supermarket and just get by; I want something bigger, more meaningful. I want my soul to sing out loud, not just hum along in the background and yet that’s all it is doing.  I want a deeper, more fulfilling life than the one I currently have, and so today, I finally did something that I’ve been thinking of doing for the past couple of years, and I’ve enrolled on a course to train to become a life coach. Ultimately, I want to train to become a counsellor or psychotherapist, but for now, training to be a life coach is ideal and will fit perfectly around my children’s needs.