I loathe self-help books, I don’t like to be told how to feel and process things – especially by people who don’t know me or what I have been through. I don’t believe in many alternative “new-age” ways of thinking, mainly because I fiercely believe in science and I am not the kind of person who can gaze at my naval and contemplate. In fact I can’t do anything that involves concentrating on breathing because as soon as I even think of the in and out mechanism of breathing I forget how to do it.  You don’t want to sit near me in a yoga class when they do breathing exercises – I will trample you in my hurry to leave.

Being told that I can manifest good things if I just think positively is one of the worst things you can say to me – I wonder if people who say that to me would say the same words to a child born and living in a rubbish dump in India. Or to a child suffering from a terminal disease. Or to a family fleeing the war in Syria. I could go on for days. Ridiculously bad things happen to extremely good people and extravagantly good things happen to hideously bad people. Life can be awful and wonderful and it’s very, very random.
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