I’ve just been to see Steven Spielberg’s The Post, which bored me ever so slightly at the beginning, to be honest (or not). But soon it got me so roped in by its central dilemma that it got me thinking about the question of honesty in all of our normal, humdrum lives. Not enormous issues [...]
Tag: life
What I would say to my twenty-year-old self
What would I say to my younger self, if I could re-live my youth? I’m sure that many people over a certain age (not necessarily ‘old’, just no longer honoured by the accolade of ‘young’) must think the same thing. The mistakes we made in our greener days, the fears and hopes we had, the [...]
The Innocence of Betrayal
I’ve been thinking about the raw subject of betrayal, and the thousand and one ways in which we can commit this seemingly hideous act of human behaviour. But I’ve also been thinking – is it really hideous? Or is it just a human act that we are hardly capable of controlling in certain circumstances? “I [...]
Moving on
There are many things in life that are easier said than done, and moving on is one of them. How many people over the generations have been told to move on, and felt obliged to do so, rather like an assignment set at school? Or a New Year’s resolution never to be kept but [...]
Christmas Eve
The Diary Keeper Wendy Skorupski It is the winter of 1992 in post-communist Poland. Leo Ferenc is an introverted bachelor with faded rock star looks, a club foot, and a chip on his shoulder. He owns a small photocopying shop in the heart of Krakow - a medieval city that is just waking up to [...]
The Grass is Not Always Greener!
The Grass is NOT Always Greener! How is it that when you lose someone you loved, whether it be through death or the break-up of a relationship, you always glorify the past? I suppose that’s a good thing when it comes to death – it’s the mind’s auto-mechanism of softening the pain. After all, when [...]
Should you use the ‘L’ word?
Who believes in the L’ word? No, I don’t mean Litigation or Libel or Lust or Lasciviousness or Lechery or Lingerie. I mean LOVE, obviously. I love you. How many times do we use that word, that clichéd phrase, during the course of our lives? Parent to child, child to parent, partner to partner, spouse [...]
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