Category Archives: TQQ

You are not unempathetic because you cannot be fully, patiently empathetic with all people at all times.

Young souls have a curative quality, an honesty and an innocence that illuminates the dark malignancies that shroud adult society.

Gladiators face each other because they must – it is do or die. Why are boxers jumping into the ring?

How you treat young people, what you say and do to to them, or what you fail to say and do, may irrevocably impact their life trajectory. 

Fatigue can make cowards of men, but the deeper into that dark place you go, the brighter the light on the other side.

Words rarely work to change behaviour – he says, writing words in the hope they do just that…

I was better at reading than running. Or, to say the same thing in a different way: in my tiny Catholic primary school, I was second-pick for goalkeeper. There were two kids to choose from, and the slightly fatter kid got it over me.

After two nights of caustic distension and voluminous bilateral expulsion, the image of which no innocent reader really ought to have conjured on their midweek evening, I find myself recovered enough to sit up for extended periods, walk short distances (other than bed to toilet) – and write this blog post.

If there were a single ‘point’ to this piece it would be that: unpleasantness is, unfortunately, part and parcel of life. Being blind to it harms more than helps.