Sometimes in life something happens that blows your mind. I had a moment like that recently whilst doing the food shop with my mum and Emma.

We were casually debating the benefits of the different toothpaste brands when a woman approaches and says she recognises my mum. So far so normal, until we discover where this lady knows my mum from.

This lady claims to remember my mum from the maternity ward almost 45 years ago – when I was being born. This interaction completely blew my mind as I struggle to remember somebody I met last week, let alone all those years back.

The conversation continued and we heard how her son was born a couple of weeks before me and the bump that she remembers with my mum is in fact me.

Not the sort of small talk I was expecting in the supermarket!

We gazed at photos of the lady's son on her phone before she gave my mum a hug and headed off leaving us bewildered as we got back to chatting about toothpaste.

This whole conversation has been playing on my mind ever since. It amazes me how anybody can remember a face from that far back, and what were the chances of both my mum and the lady walking past each other in the supermarket that day?

It got me thinking about where we end up in life – some of us (like me) stay local and others end up all over the world, in this case the lady's son, who is living overseas.

Wouldn't it be fascinating to take a snapshot of the maternity ward when I was born and then, almost 45 years later, catch up and see where those babies ended up?

I guess that's in the vein of the long-running TV show 7 Up, which recently concluded.

We all have dreams and aspirations in life. Some of us get to achieve them but if you don't that is OK.

Since I was a teenager I have wanted to be involved with radio and make it my job. Where I am now is not exactly how I thought it would pan out and I remember telling a carers advisor at school about my dreams, only to be advised to look at "proper job options".

My niche into radio has been through supporting people with disabilities to get their voice heard, which has worked out very well.

It's easy to fall into the trap of using others as a benchmark. Society's idea is that you should have achieved certain things by a certain age; or perhaps that by scrolling through social media you see perfect lives you should try to live up to.

We all do things our own way and have our own path and that should really be celebrated!

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