So many of us struggle through life with no clue where we’re going – or why.
We buy lottery tickets, hoping to get lucky and win a fortune.
Or we destroy our health, staying in jobs we hate, worrying about paying the bills but suffering from work-related stress – and smoking and drinking too much to cope with that stress.
Because we don’t really know what we want out of life, we spend our lives trying to get money.
Read More
If only…
We all have our dreams.
But do they have a hope of becoming reality? Or are they merely an easier alternative than facing reality and changing it to what we want?
You may remember the Mirror of Erised from the first Harry Potter book.
It shows the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. However, as Professor Dumbledore warns Harry:
‘This mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible…’
Read More
You’re incredible, you are. A real piece of work. And I don’t mean that the way it sounded! I was referring to the speech from Shakespeare’s Hamlet:...
Read More
As children, we learned this little rhyme: Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout Down came...
Read More
Do you have a dream? Samuel Taylor Coleridge did. He woke from an opium dream with the poem Xanadu fully-formed in his mind. He sat down immediately and started to...
Read More
Have you got what it takes? There’s a scene in the movie Working Girl, where Tess McGill’s friend Cyn (played by Joan Cusack) says: ‘I like to sing...
Read More
What’s your most precious possession? Time. You can lose it easily, but you can never get it back. It’s worth more than gold, but you can’t buy more...
Read More
Remember Marlon Brando in that scene from On the Waterfront? I don’t – I never watched it. Maybe you haven’t seen the movie, either. But we...
Read More
