GeoffBrady

Sometimes, don’t you just wish you could try taking every road that leads from a crossroads? I wish I could travel along each one to see where they go, then come back, having seen them all, and decide which one was best.

I cringe when people say “life sucks” or something like that. “Make the most of it”. That is better… but I don’t want to live just one life. It isn’t fair. I want to live it over and over again. Do things differently. “What if I…” is the precursor of many things that float around in this brain of mine. I wish I were able to realise some of those things, but instead I have to settle for the outcomes of the decisions I have made. Some of them have been bold, some of them have been exciting. Some I rather I hadn’t made.

I saw an article somewhere on the BBC News website about the death of (or change in) the art of conversation. The article was constructed as a conversation between two experts. One expert cited the reasons for the lack of conversation between people is the fact that people think less about things now than they used to. I’m not sure whether I agree with this or not. An example of this occurring is the rolling news television channels. We obtain snippets of news that barely scratch the surface in terms of what is going on, and the next item is presented to us before we have the opportunity to think.

On a personal level, I think a lot (perhaps too much). This enables me to have conversations with people. This way, in some cases at least, I can get the best out of people. But I cannot get the best out of me. Sometimes I take the easy option, which is often not the best option. If I take the easy option, I make the best of it, which isn’t necessarily the best I might have achieved. I guess what I am saying is that I need some encouragement, motivation and guidance. I think these are things I have long needed or at least I have too long relied upon myself to acquire each. It’s ironic that when you need people most is when they seem so far away.