Tag: everything

Don’t fret

One sentence, one special person. You’re already a winner.

If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say?

It’s funny that I’m answering this prompt in a present tense, imagining what I’d expect to read as a result of a lifetime of experience and broken expectations.

Taking what I know now into context, the sentence I’d expect to hear is:

“Don’t worry, everything will be alright”

And to be honest, previous experience does lead me to agree somewhat. Going all the way back to my school years (And that was a lifetime ago) we’d worry about exams, back then it was the end of the world, we worried constantly and I even see kids doing the same today, but with the benefit of hindsight I can clearly say, it really doesn’t matter, everything’s ok, it worked out just fine.

If you can step aside from peer pressure, or even better still if your peers can stop applying that pressure in the first place, the world would be a happier place.

Put it like this, the fact you are even here on this planet is a miracle in its self, the chances of your parents even conceiving you are a massive 1 in 400 Trillion.

That makes you a very special person right from the very start.

So don’t fret, you have a right to be here, you have a right of free expression, you have a right to be whatever you wish to be.

You are a winner. “Don’t worry, everything will be alright”

Have a superb day.

Thoughts 16/4/24

What place in the world do you never want to visit? Why?

Well this is another one that’s not going to be hard to answer. I have a friend who lives in the Melbourne area of Australia and thanks to him and the regular pictures he sends me I shall not be visiting that country anytime soon.

Now I don’t know if he’s doing this deliberately to keep me away, if that is the case he has succeeded.

Australia looks a beautiful place and I’m sure it is. However I am an arachnophobe to the point of absolute terror not just being scared. You should see me going into my garden shed here in the Uk, my wife says I look like the Pope giving a blessing as I have a large stick and I’m waving it about so I don’t get caught in any web.

Massive Spider – Australia style

It all goes back to when I was younger and my parents would force my elder brother to take me out to play with him and his mates. They of course used to use and abuse me as youngsters do, and one of the things they loved doing was stuffing all kinds of creatures down my neck and watching me scream and run around, I really was a bag of nerves back then. I’m not much better now especially in the presence of spiders.

To be honest it seems everything in Australia wants to kill you. If it isn’t many varieties of spiders, it’s the snakes. If not the snakes it’s the waterborne animals such as Crocs. Even the bloody Kangaroos want you to fight you!

And then there’s the heat. If the local wildlife doesn’t get you, then the heat does. I like a little warmth just like the next guy, but being a well done piece of meat doesn’t appeal to me.

Nope, I’ll be giving Australia a miss for the rest of my life if that’s ok.

Happy day to everyone 👍