Edel Coffey: How do we go forward in life if we feel we don’t have things to look forward to? 

"What could be more inspiring and motivating than the idea of living a free and independent life in your old age?"

Author Edel Coffey. Picture: Bríd O'Donovan

I have a friend whose motto is ‘don’t look back.’ He’s been through a lot and when people ask him, ‘how did you survive?’ he always brushes them off with the same answer: ‘I just don’t look back.’

In my ongoing obsession with Arnold Schwarzenegger, I read another interview with him last week that reminded me of my friend.