20 years is a great achievement. Being self-employed has its ups and downs as you say but I definitely find there are more 'ups' especially the freedom and opportunity to mould a business in your own way and to seize opportunities as they arise.
It sounds like you are seizing lots of new opportunities - things that you might have missed had you been full-time employed....
Yes, that is the way to see it! I am pretty content.
Listening to this song, that I have known for 60 years, I realized that I knew almost all the words, although I have not listened to the song for years.
I still remembers the day when she died, the same day as Jean Cocteau.
She was something special. I have known this all my life as my father used to play it. I have a friend that is a house DJ and he was in France to play a gig, and he told me that this German guy made fun of Edith Piaf and people, even in this electronic music community, had to tell him that no one made fun of her and her music when they were around.