Two times I had a kick up the arse.

We all have had those chats with people about things that you should be doing. But do you take action? The chats that I’m going to talk about are few and far between for me. I’ve only had two chats like this since I was 18. What I am going to describe are two passing conversations that changed my life. Something in them made me stand up and take notice. My first experience with this was when I was 18, I had recently left school after finishing my A-levels. I was at the dentist having a routine check up and I had my uniform on from the supermarket I was working in. The dentist made conversation with me and was asking me what I was up to now that I’d left school. I told him I was working in a supermarket full time and that I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life. I don’t remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of ‘What are you doing?! If I was young I would want to get out of this town, going travelling and see the world.’ Now I’m sure we’ve all had lectures like this before but at the time I don’t think I’d had someone be that direct with me. I could go travelling, I could change my life. The next day I called the art college that I wanted to go to and managed to get a clearing interview there. It all happened pretty fast, I think from having the conversation with the dentist to the first day on the course the timeframe for that was about 2 weeks. When I was offered a place on the course there, I was so surprised. That course changed my life and if it wasn’t for talking to my dentist I might have never done it. <a href="https://medium.com/@benparkerphoto_/two-times-i-had-a-kick-up-the-arse-c49789ff16b9">Website</a>