The only way to arrive (be present) is to put the brakes on your life, rather than the accelerator (get out of here/ avoid noticing the details of where you are)

Life is the carrot that leads us forward - death, the stick that drives us reluctantly in the same direction as we try to avoid it.

If life is good we want to to stay and enjoy it - if it is bad we want to run away and abandon it

The difference between nostalgia and just returning to where you...

paigetheoracle

I'm becoming cynical in my old age but that is because I am getting nowhere fast.

I've tried writing blogs before (twice) and I think I'm going to end up doing with this one what I did with the other two - abandoning it out of disinterest because I'm not a diary person and never have been (My personal life is boring but my thoughts are where I live - hence my love of forums and interaction (dialogue, not monologue: I could never have written Hamlets soliloquy for instance).
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paigetheoracle

I'm not sure what to say today but in future I want to use this spot to put down my observations on life, for good or ill and that may include stories in the papers, TV or elsewhere that sparks off an idea and I hope you enjoy it as reader(s)!*








*Hell, I know my ideas have always been as popular as a dose of flu but my only role in life seems to be, being a pain in the neck of certainty (my own and others, especially my brother...

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