I grew up in Geelong, the youngest of 7 children.
My father is an Italian immigrant and my mother
is Australian. My mother's life is music and my
fathers is food.
She instilled in all of us children her love
of music, hence my childhood having a rich and
diverse soundtrack. I listened to classical,
opera, reggae, rock, metal, pop, and jazz (all
the individual preferred styles of each sibling).
My parents also instilled in us a very strong
sense of self respect and individuality: we were
taught to think for ourselves, work things out
by deduction and common sense, and make our own
decisions. We were raised to aspire to the
highest levels of everything (except sport:
that was not heavily encouraged-it's a long story)
Needless to say that as a free thinking, open
minded but immature individual I developed very
naïve but pretentious world views that
inevitably came crashing down with real life
experience and turned a positive attitude, toward
the woes of this world, cynical, then hopeless.
So, I did the only thing I knew would help-took
heaps of drugs and stayed wasted for a few years
while preoccupying myself with partying, and empty
friendships and emotionally gaurded relationships.
Inevitably I realised this must stop or I would
never come back. So, in true bec style, I stopped
everything. Quit drugs, drinking, going out, vapid
relationships, and walked away with me, and
one friend.
Over the next two years I worked hard to sort
out the debris that so many chemicals and negative
experiences had left in my psyche, family support
and a Psychologist helped immensely, as did the
elimintaion of many foods that i had grown
intollerent of.
Now I am fairly well centred, I eat well and go
do yoga, I own a house which I renovate when
money permits, have three cats which is prob about
as close as I will ever to get to having kids,
and am almost ready to get back into fighting
against some of the negative elements that exist in
mankind. Which is made so much easier by the unexpected
meeting of a most intoxicating man. He is one of the
most extraordinary people I have ever had the honour
of knowing. He sees me, which few do, and he loves what
he sees. He treats me like a Queen (hey, I'm a Leo)
something I thought existed only in the fantasy land
inside my head, and he makes every day a pleasure to
live.
So that all needs to be updated: It's been almost 2 years
and lots has happened since then...Mike and I moved
in together, got a dog, and are now engaged. We will
be married in early April in true Rock'N'Roll style!
Our dog is rad, and so is our life together.
On a sad note, my father died last week (7th Sept)
after 18 months of battling with cancer. His death
has changed me in so many ways. I have learned a lot
about life and family, and will no longer take things
for granted...'tis cliche, I know, but one thing I
have learned is that cliche is the reality of a
situation, and not necessarily a bad thing.
I could go on for ages but I'll refrain.
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