It All Started With You: A heartbreaking, uplifting read from Debbie Howells

I always thought I was going to be a girl who did something. I was going to run my own business and find fame and fortune! Fall in love

But here I am. Still waiting for it all to happen, sitting on the floor, surrounded by lilies and roses, trying to do my best friends wedding flowers because in her words how hard can it be, Frankie?. The answer is actually very hard but its not the only thing thats tough right now. My boyfriend wont commit, I barely have a job, and once again I have the hangover from hell

What I dont know is that lifes about to throw me a curveball. A new friend I will make with a beautiful, sad-eyed little boy who is so very tragically ill. I still dont know about that heartbreak.

Even so, in this moment, I know that its time for some changes. Maybe its time to make my dreams come true? To try to become a marathon-running, healthy-living, wildly-in-love florist-to-the-stars!

Because Im beginning to realise that you only get one chance at life. I dont yet know how you change everything, all at once, but what I do know is it all starts with me

Previously published as Wildflowers by Debbie Howells.