By amigoponc on Skatehive
Sitting in front of the large window in my home in Canada, I watch the landscape transform with patience that only the years have allowed me to understand. Turning seventy is not simply reaching a milestone; it is standing on a vantage point from which the horizon is clearer. Often, when people talk about a ‘bucket list,’ they imagine skydiving or frenetic trips to exotic places. However, at my age, my list is not written with adrenaline, but with the serenity of someone who has learned to tame their own ghosts. I look back and recognise that my greatest achievement was not crossing geographical borders as a migrant, but crossing the border of fear. For decades, I understood that the highest obstacle was not bureaucracy, nor language, nor the freezing climate of the north, but that inner voice whispering ‘you can't do it’. I learned that to achieve a dream, you have to turn it into a concrete goal. My strategy was visualisation, taking my desire for granted so that my brain, like a blo