And to have balanced that with the demands of having a family while retaining some sanity? I’ll take that.īack to Life series two is on BBC1 on Tuesdays at 10. To actually be living it still feels extraordinary. Those aspirations – I thought – would remain in my journal for good. I had no role models who looked like me to follow in the footsteps of. I’m a long way from the 13-year-old girl in my bedroom with her pipe dreams of performing. Still, I’m sure Freud would have a few things to say about me playing his grandmother. With dating you put your best foot forward starting as mates means there are no filters, the greatest love and security come from being utterly yourself. Plus, I can finally be a legitimate grumpy old woman now.įalling in love with your best friend? There’s nothing better. Not fading away, but grabbing every moment. The key to happy later years is staying curious. Some friends had a wobble, but I just feel there’s so much more left to be done. Turning 60 this year, I felt all the clichés: age is only a number it’s how you feel inside. My husband, Sanjeev, is helping me relax. I’m learning to let things go, and to ask for support. Meera Agarwal developing creative & social impact body of work Published + Follow This one instance, while eating a delicious Rawa Dosa with my team, in a highway Darshini, came up. I’ve now got a child still at school while I look after an aged mother, just at the age when, many years ago, I thought I’d be travelling the world. Having juggled so much for so many years it became second nature to take everything on. I went from the kooky girl giggling in the corner to being part of something that people understood.ĭelegation has never been my strong point, but I’m trying to improve. That was a rebirth for me, a coming home of sorts.
It was an expression of something unique to our culture-bending generation, but we found humour that was universal. The success of Goodness Gracious Mewas a delightful shock to all of us – we had no idea how iconic it would become. They drummed into me that I’d have to work twice as hard and that I’d encounter prejudice, but there was nothing I couldn’t achieve. Thankfully, Mum and Dad recognised something different in me and encouraged it.
Things were fermenting, but I was a late developer: working out who I was took time. At my first disco I was 16, and I was home by 10pm.
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