It is past time that I wrote something which is about a topic separate from my current medical issues!! Otherwise it might seem like that is the only thing on my mind – which is far from the truth. OK – it does tend to dominate – particularly at some times during the cycle – but there are plenty of other things occupying my mind.
Invulnerability
In the 18th Century Benjamin Franklin famously said that “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” – many of us go through much of our life paying much attention to taxes, but paying scant attention to death.
On Receiving News You Did Not Want To Hear
When I started writing these blog entries I had no idea what the precise nature of the content would be – in some cases it was a subject matter that has occupied my thoughts for a long time; in some it was something that I felt I needed to just understand my own thoughts; and in some – like this one – the subject matter is something that I just did not expect!!
Pulling Those Threads Tight
In the two previous posts, The Red Thread and Making Connections, I wrote about the connections we have with other people and how there seems to often be an inexplicably strong connection to some – manifesting itself in the way that our lives constantly intertwine. Typical of this is, of course, family connections – these are to be expected. It is inevitable that we interact with other members of our family – even if that is only at births, marriages and funerals!!
The Red Thread
Some of my earliest blog entries dealt with some thoughts of mine about friends – closeness of friendship and the fact that there are just a few people in anyone’s life who become intricately entwined in that life. As my ideas are developing in that area (and in all other areas of course) it now strikes me that fundamental to the friendships are connections – and this also sits well with my later amendment that whilst I started out talking about friends the ‘closeness’ attribute also applied to enemies!
Making Connections
Have you ever really thought about why people make connections with others? It is both natural and mysterious – why connect with Person A, but not with person B? Certainly some of this is down to ‘circumstances’ – we will make connections (good or bad) with people that we share a close space with – at work, at school, in church, or wherever. There is, however, more to it than that.
An Unlikely Chain Of Events
There are a lot of different things that trigger the thoughts that end up expressed here in the blog. This particular post was inspired by a post on LinkedIn – I responded and then felt that it was appropriate to elaborate just a little here.
Trust Should Be Earned
In a return to the fine line between “good” and “evil” that I talked about a couple of posts back I have become aware of an interesting, and ever so slightly bizarre, behavioural trait that I seem to have adopted. In a few situations where I want to be ‘careful’ that my actions or words should not be misinterpreted I have started to imitate the precise behaviour of someone who might want to hide their true intent!
Know Yourself …. Can You?
The wonders of the world wide web – not only have I made contact with lots of old friends, I have also made some very good new ones. I love the diversity of characters that you get to meet – and, in my experience, there are plenty of ‘good’ people – or – at least, people who give the impression of being ‘good’ because we all know how easy it is to create a persona that is false.
What Good Is That?
This is a ‘first’ in my blogs – I am starting to write this without knowing where it is going to end up! The trigger was the thought that I enjoy learning – I will ‘devour’ new information – I often follow trails through the world wide web and find myself at places that I didn’t envisage when I started on the journey.