05/09/2026
Yesterday I was in the chemist and there was an older man being served in front of me.
He looked like he was really struggling. He was pushing one of those walker things with wheels, or it might have been a trolley, I honestly can’t remember. But I remember him.
As he was leaving, the woman behind the counter said,
“Have a good week.”
And he sort of mumbled to himself as he walked away,
“Every week’s the same.”
God, that got me.
I’ve thought about it so many times since.
I know absolutely nothing about this man or his life. Maybe he was having a s**t day. Maybe he’s perfectly content and I caught him in one crappy moment.
But it wasn’t really about him after that.
It was what those words made me think about my own life.
Because I don’t want every week to be the same.
I don’t want to keep saying I’ll travel when there’s more money, I’ll do that when I have more time, I’ll change this when life settles down.
Because when exactly does life settle down?
I’m 54. I’m not old, but I’m also not going to pretend I have endless years ahead of me to eventually get around to living the life I want.
And I think that’s changed something in me over the last few years.
I want to see places I’ve never seen.
I want to spend stupid amounts of time with my kids and grandkids.
I want to get my partner out of FIFO work so he doesn’t have to spend half his life away working 14-hour days.
I want to wake up somewhere completely different and think, how bloody good is this?
I want things on the calendar that I’m excited about.
And I don’t want to keep putting all of that off for “one day.”
That man probably has no idea that I even heard him.
But four little words from a complete stranger have been going around in my head ever since.
“Every week’s the same.”
I don’t want to be able to say that about my life.
What about you? Is there something you keep saying you’ll do “one day” that you’re starting to realise you don’t want to keep putting off?