What a great few days of celebration for the Queens Platinum Jubilee. Last week I posted a picture of my Mum (Our Queen) and celebrated her life. This week it’s a picture of the Nations Queen and we have been celebrating everything she stands for over the past few days.
There have been over 16,000 street parties, even more garden parties and millions of celebratory glasses raised to celebrate the achievements of our Monarch. It feels good to be a part of this celebration and brought me a renewed sense of pride, being a part of this great country.
The Queen has had her share of ups and downs with family issues, challenges and embarrassing moments. I feel her pain and I think most people will resonate with those trials and tribulations. Life is not perfect, and sometimes, the downs are hard to handle and the highs don’t last long enough, in my opinion.
She (The Queen) has been strong, stayed in control and remained resilient, but she hasn’t done it on her own. She has had a great team of people around her, supporting, guiding and advising her. Keeping her safe and protecting her every move. It’s just like every family should be, although our advisors are normally Auntie Ethel, Uncle John or even Cousin Bobby and they have good intentions but are not normally qualified to give any advice.
We all make mistakes, get it wrong and make bad choices in our lives. It’s good to get it wrong now and then, make a fool of yourself often and be a wise owl at precise, meaningful, moments. I think that is what life holds in store for everyone and those experiences befall us all, eventually.
A beautiful life is not perfect.
Contrast is required in life and to appreciate the good you must have experienced the bad (sort of). It would be nice to think that there would be minimal extremes, especially for the bad times, but sometimes life deals you a tough hand and it’s how you respond that matters.
The Queen has, externally, remained rational when needed, passionate as required and measured with her messages, always.
Reflecting on her past 70 years, I am sure the Queen would have, in hindsight, done a few things differently. In my life there are things I would like to think I got right and other things I maybe should have done ‘slightly’ differently, but, all in all, I think it’s been fairly balanced!
If you have kids, manage teams, work with people or have family, just remember that no-one is perfect or gets it right all of the time, we all mess up now and then. They don’t do it on purpose though.If you can learn to forgive and forget, you are halfway there for a more pleasant, enjoyable life, for everyone.