Irene is a novelist, housewife, mother and event organiser

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I’m still grappling with the question of ‘what is important and what is important to me’. That’s a lifelong journey. I don’t have the answers. I like to feel I’m asking the questions. It’s the central problem in life. If I knew the answers, I’d be very happy but I don’t. It impedes me in life that I can’t answer the questions. I’m always asking these questions, consciously or not.

People who I love: that is an essential part of who I am.

I feel intellectually that I can’t know the answers; that is the human journey. It’s the mystery. There’s the beauty of it as well. The inspiration to find the answers is important to me. Most people wouldn’t bother to try to write a novel or do painting. Just trying to get the answers is important to me personally and trying to get all the questions. The spiritual journey is very much part of the mystery. I see most life as Unfinished Journeys.

There is anxiety and inspiration and ….there is a sense of infinity – it is an opening of the doors not a closing of the doors. I don’t like having questions unanswered; that is what is so fascinating.