Being on holiday, like I have been recently, reminded me of how different it is compared to back home. Here I compare my time away from the routine, the work, the rushing around, to the time I had in the Lake District and later, Portsmouth. I was was able contrast how different it feels, and … Read more
My social anxiety has affected me in so many ways. So much that when I look at what I’ve done with my life, is see little of consequence. I look back at the person I once was. When I was rejected again and again by my peers at school it hurt, and I didn’t understand … Read more
Not too long ago I wrote a rant to myself. As a way of letting out my rage, my frustration at the world. But really it’s about government, corruption of power, business, and society. Here’s an extract. Economics What a mess we have let this world become. Where money is seen as the measure of … Read more
Thinking upon death and life I remembered some research I had recently read on the psychology about motivation. In a study out of the university of Michigan, it was discovered that participants would see the future as closer if that future endpoint was expressed in days rather than years or months. Daphna Oyserman the lead … Read more
Work gets done. Time is spent. Possessions are accumulated. Projects undertaken. We connect to other. This is the business of life. Except there’s one problem. We don’t know if any of the above matters in the greater scheme of things. We seem to be insignificant in the great swirl of the cosmos. In this one … Read more
Nice. I hate that word, and good too. Isn’t Richard nice. Nice, nice, nice. He’s a good boy. Modest, unassuming, impeccable manners. He’s very nice. I hate being nice all the time. Sometimes I just want to be a rude, crude, arrogant, condescending, narcissistic, brutish, know it all, vulgar, pain in the ass!!! I want … Read more