Millennium - Robbie Williams

Run around in Circles...

Question - Where were you at the Millennium? You know, the day the world was going to stop revolving when all the computers were going to say 'no', and the planes were going to drop from the sky? I can remember and was 37 at the time and had run 217 marathons - I know, I checked.

Well, I'm sure you can remember what you were doing as the year turned 2000, but that's twenty-five years ago. Yikes, where did that time go? Life happened. Stuff happened. There were ups and there were downs - but we survived and, hopefully, in that time you managed to tick a lot of life boxes.

 

Looking back, we were still on dial-up to get online, Facebook wouldn’t be online until 2004, Twitter 2006 and Instagram 2010, (I kid you not). Big Brother aired and Pop Idol appeared in 2001 amongst other TV shows of the time. We were still listening to CDs and watching DVDs - The digital world just didn’t kinda exist! 

 

Anyway, what got me thinking was that in twenty-five years from now, God willing, I wonder where we'll be. I'll be 87 with some marbles left. I do hope and I'll be writing about how in 2050, I've made great use of the previous twenty-five years since I last wittered on about a quarter of a lifetime passing me by.

 

Who knows eh? It does make you wonder though, and I want to make sure I'm making the best use of my time and continue to help, achieve, and experience the world around me. As I've learned in this past twenty-five-year chapter, it's the people that surround me with an added drop of adventure that gives life value and worth.

 

As I head into my thirty-second year of sobriety tomorrow, I feel grateful that I'm still here enjoying everything life has to throw my way - and I hope you feel that way too as this is it folks, there's no dress rehearsal and no second chances.

1,205 Marathons - 285 Ultras - 17 MDS - 9 GWR - 1 Life