How do you measure significance?

This whole donation business and people attitudes towards me and "this amazing thing I'm doing" has made me look at my life thus far in a very different way.

I'm 32 this year and in that time I don't feel as though I have really achieved anything of any real significance. But I guess that depends on how you measure significance. Is it significance to you or others? For me I guess it has always been a combination of the two.

I always had this feeling that I was "destined for more!" cheesy I know, but that said, I just never had a clue what that "more" was. I am definitely not saying that donating a kidney to my brother is it, cos that would just be such a bloody cliche!! The movie My Sister's Keeper springs to mind!!!

I will admit though, that with each test I pass I feel a small sense of achievement. Doesn't make me any less scared though! I have some great friends around me and one in particular gives me great strength and makes me feel like there isn't anything I can't face. Again, cheesy I know but it's the truth.

I saw my Grandad the other day, now there is a man who has achieved a lot - mainly in the name of God, Queen and Country. He was a Commando in the Marines during WW2, his boss was Ian Fleming. Yes, the same Ian Fleming that wrote the James Bond books!! He told my mum that he is proud of me and my brothers and that really kinda choked me up. It's not that it means more coming from a war veteran, it just means a lot!!