What relationships have a positive impact on you?

Thesedays it’s simply easy-going people I like to be around. A sense of humour does it for me, too.

I’ve had more than my share of the difficult, the ones who think they have got away with their passive aggression.

We are all complex souls and act in one way or another for a variety of reasons, I get that. And I blame myself totally for humouring folk in the past who think I fell off a Christmas tree.

My dad provided for us. We lived somewhere nice and were well fed, never cold, and with pleasant family holidays. But I still haven’t worked out why he had kids at all.

I felt us as siblings were just add-ons to the life he led along with his harem. Guilt tripping was rife with four wives and a girlfriend or two thrown in for good measure.

It was constantly difficult for us to navigate our way through and around the characters and their personalities. None of them child friendly. Only my mom, who lived elsewhere, had any warmth.

And it’s warmth that attracts me today, people who give a damn about the world spining out of control, with leaders who should be locked up.

The ones who have compassion and understand how humans really mess with the lives and deaths of animals.

And in the words of Caroline Flack ( 1979~2020)

“In a world where you can be anything, be kind,”