Where in Life Are You Taking Yourself Too Seriously (I speak for myself, of course!)

Are you taking life too seriously??

The Heaviest of Topics…

About a month ago, I was given a writing assignment as part of a group to write about a topic that felt ‘heavy’ to me, in a way that was light. No further explanation; no direction whether it should be personal or global, nothing, nada. Just the instruction.

I didn’t love the assignment, in fact I kinda resented it, but, being the good student I am, I immediately found myself creating a checklist of topics that came under the ‘serious’ banner…

• Death
• Sex
• My crumbling back (although it’s fun to have conversations about the good drugs.)
• Brexit (soooo not caring about Brexit!
• My neighbour’s building work that feels like he’s knocking holes in my wall (interesting how I only remember the noise now because I wrote it down a month ago.)
• Money, if we’d put money into pensions instead of private schools we could have retired millionaires (yeah, you didn’t, so what.)
• Is my teenager going to be roofied in a university bar (idea put in my head by a TV drama. Felt real for a few minutes and the cold grip of an ‘OMG he could die like that girl on the Silent Witness!’ thought…