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Reason #2 - the meaning of friendship

Today, as I cooked up yet another HelloFresh meal for two, for one, I decided to write about the greatest of all blessings and ultimate reason to rejoice - friendship. I assume that my dear readers will have already fallen into two distinct camps; the first thinking how very sweet and wholesome that I am (and this is).   The rest of you, my actual friends, will be bristling with resentment at having to read this bilge just in case I have written about you. I can hear you tutting from 4.73 miles away. Sucks to be you eh? Friends are absolutely essential. Now that I cannot reach out to embrace mine I cling to them with an unbecoming desperation, through email, text, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Zoom, Microsoft bloody Teams and even the cursed space that is Houseparty. I have rather more friends than I deserve but, as with an expansive shoe collection, the variety ensures that there is always the comfort of the old, the delight of the new, and very occasio...
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Reason #1 - our new overlords A brief explanation for a new form of self-indulgence There are endless reasons to feel vexed at present. I was feeling pretty low before the realities of COVID-19 forced me to hang up my Oyster card. Since being stuck at home alone I have felt my sense of equilibrium come under huge strain. So serious was my discombobulation that I briefly considered going for a run.   Of course, being unable to leave the house for a while is nothing compared to the challenges and hardships that many are facing. But I don't feel any better for adding guilt to my list of negative emotions. When depression and anxiety hit me hard I find it difficult to read more than a few pages and my ability to tolerate music starts to decline too. When I was unwell last year, the loss of pleasure in song and prose terrified me. I felt was if I was losing myself entirely. In a way, the current situation is easier to bear because of its external cause The relentless chorus o...
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