Stoicism

Upon arriving home last night I expressed my absolute frustration to the husband about some random work orientated things. Expressed it clearly and precisely in words of one syllable. And I might have declared that I was so irked that I felt like acting like a child by throwing myself on the floor, having a stiff bodied tantrum, and …

Home is where the heart is.

So I’m doing the rounds at the moment, trying to raise some dosh as I’m running the London Marathon to raise money for a charity. It’s a charity that is near and dear to my heart, but something has stumped me since I started shaking my virtual bucket at people: the response I get when …

Promises, promises…

“But they broke their promise.” Words muttered at me by a friend.  We all make promises. Give our word. State categorically that this will happen without fail. We make promises with the best of intentions, on behalf of future selves that we believe will fulfill them. And sometimes we break our promises. Whether we deem a broken …

Keeping it real.

It seems to me as if we’ve changed our definition of what is real to accommodate an economy based on the currency of sharing. It’s an economy that seems to me to measure an event’s value by the number of likes and retweets it gets. An economy that changes the way we make decisions because …

Mistakes. I’ve made a few…

Back when I was a wee person, my parents warned me about this terrible thing called “making mistakes”. They talked about this a lot. They filled my head with all kinds of horror stories. They believed that as long as I did things with caution and care, and learned from other people’s blunders and faux …

Going with the flow…

I kind of wrote this post to myself the other day (mentalist, I know) as I was getting annoyed by something. It was something that I desperately wanted to control but knew that I couldn't... It is futile to fight inevitability. Life is change; if we stop changing, we stop growing. Be pragmatic for a …

Push the button.

Something happened the other day – a throw away comment landed in my inbox – I thought about it for all of five minutes. And then wound myself up some more. And then a bit more. And then I decided that I was mad as wasps about the whole thing, and the only option was …

Can I kiss you?

Picture the scene: Summer of 2011. Early evening. Two people – a guy and a girl. Loitering outside Goodge Street tube station. “Can I kiss you?” he asked. Balls. I didn't really want to kiss him. It had been a lack lustre first date. Zero spark if you know what I mean. However I didn't …

Pulling the plug…

You know you have those days where you have a random chit chat with someone and it helps to unravel some stuff that’s been burbling around in the back of your brain? Today was one of those days for me. For a few weeks now I’ve been trying to get my head straight around some …

Sucking the joy…

It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. Nor does it matter what skills you have, where you were born or which family you come from. One of the most important things in life is the people that you choose to surround yourself with. You’d probably describe the majority …