Day 347 – Don’t give in…

Day 347 – Don’t give in…
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Day 347 – Don’t give in…
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
“Because I don’t think first of myself anymore, I think first of them. I know now how to spend my love.”
Back in Uni, it was considered an honour and a strength when one could ‘handle their liquor,’ as in keep it down and not make a clown of themselves despite drinking copious amounts. But a healthy, functioning body will spew that liquid back out. Why? Because it’s the body’s healthy way of ‘handling the liquor’ very well.
“At eight years old…I went to a ‘coloured’ water fountain, because I wanted to see what coloured water looks like.”
There’s something about the personal experience of traumatic events and the visual in the presence of horrible situations, that changes us in ways that TV and films usually can’t…
Like a grumbling, pensioner with a thick, flapping jowl, I can say without any of the traditional old-person embellishment needed that, “I remember what it was like when Skittles cost 27p.”