As they exist in the playground so they exist in the workplace. The workplace bully brings all the raw emotional rage of the child into the insidious form of a normal, average adult at work. They can remain unnoticed for long periods of time through strategic and selective bullying – remaining very covert, or they... Read More →

The written word, for me, has always been the most enjoyable form of communication. It is free of the audible nuances that taint the directness of thoughts emerging into words and sentences. There is clarity in well formed words and sentences that I find absent in the spoken form. As words written we read and... Read More →

A term used by existential philosophers to describe the adversity and resistance of things and situations is facticty. In other words our lot in life. Humans are forever tasked with transcending their own facticity with the freedom they have; to choose and to act. I ask you to spare a thought for the poor bastard... Read More →

Dark, complex, unsettling and clinical…only Almodóvar could pull something like this off. Genius. The plot revolves around Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), a brilliant plastic surgeon, and a woman, Vera, who lives under supervised conditions in his house/lab. The story unfolds around tragic events in the past with the following themes emerging throughout: Grief and Loss,... Read More →

Misanthropy is inescapable. Varying degrees of it touch everyone at different times and misanthropy does not come about by itself. There are various constituents that merge into this particular arrival of state; perhaps too many variants to consider here for the moment. Misanthropy is, by its very definition, a disposition to dislike and distrust other... Read More →

A certain amount of disorientation is required to realign with what there is; and what there is is illusion everywhere. Indifference and detachment is all that is needed for solace. Read More →

I cannot sleep. There are too many thoughts, too many ideas and considerations for me even to untangle and understand at the moment. I feel tired and my eyes are heavy yet my mind is intensely awake. I wrote for 5-6 hours today and that gained more and more momentum towards the end. I could... Read More →

My mind is a maelstrom, yet it is a subtle whirring of thoughts; much likened to the rotation of the earth and how it is unnoticable we are spinning round and round on it, yet it is so. An observer may look at the stars and moon, in the stillness of night, and notice how... Read More →

Where I have just come from is not only irrelevant here, but it is of the utmost importance that no-one knows where I have been; a secret location will remain sacred to those who cherish it enough to allow only themselves access to it What I do want to talk about is the bike ride... Read More →

Firework: “Yeah I’ll teach you to stick me up your ass!!!” I also like the way the instigator points out “Dude, it’s an asshole”. Is it? Read More →