Trying to find a notebook with some space in it I come across a scribbled line which looks like a quote but, the more I stare at it, the more it feels like my own original thought, borne from experience. “The qualities which create love, stifle desire.” As successful romantic relationships … [Read more...] about Why We Fall In Love With The Wrong People
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Why We Stay Hidden
It's the mid-eighties. My mother and father are arguing about something inane and unremarkable. I, in another room, am listening to the bickering and sniping batted back and forth until, predictably, my father gives way to his own favourite method of ending an argument, avoidance. With a flourish … [Read more...] about Why We Stay Hidden
How To Find Joy
Kes, one of my sister's rescue lurchers, doesn’t play like the other dogs. It’s impossible to know what she went through in her early life but you can watch her on the sidelines, wanting to join in with the others, wagging her tail, but something holds her back. It’s like she just doesn’t know how … [Read more...] about How To Find Joy
Why We Need Someone To Fight For Us
When I was thirteen my parents were told by my teachers that I wasn’t smart enough for grammar school and that I’d be better off staying where I was, “a big fish in a small pond”. Only years later, long after I had completed three further years of academically lethargic schooling did it occur to … [Read more...] about Why We Need Someone To Fight For Us
Why Ignorance Is Never Bliss
Walking in Cuckoo Woods with Daisy we are with my sister’s own four dogs. Daisy loves to be with “the pack” and hurtles backwards and forward through the melee making sure that everyone is present and correct. As the path runs alongside the fields there is a stream which meanders through the … [Read more...] about Why Ignorance Is Never Bliss