Where Have You Been?

By you I mean me, of course. And to be honest I am not entirely sure what the answer is. I know I have been, because I can remember the groan each morning when I get out of bed, the groan each time I stand, and the slumphing sigh when I lie back down at night. Aging bones, what a joy!

And I know that events have occurred, momentous, minor, joyous, vexatious. I have added people, lost people. I have said yes to options, I have decided against others.

I know I have been through deep thoughts, pointless and flighty nonsense, and it is all filed away somewhere for future reference or quite musing and amusement.

I have been places, seen places. I have eaten well and disappointingly, and drunk well and smugly never to embarrassing excess.

I have smiled and laughed. I have growled and shouted. I have cried. Sometimes in close sequence.

And the world has changed, for better and for worse. And my world has changed, for significantly better, and a little bit worse.

And I am losing my grip on grammatically correct English. But then the English are losing their grip on a whole lot more!

And there it is. I wondered where you had been. And there you are! The anger, the fury at the flagrant dishonesty and self-interest, at the short-sighted scapegoating, at the disconnected attack o the wrong target.

Around me, the bubble that is my impact world is a rosier place, a cheerier place, with more potential and a future.

But the bubble is permeable, and the rest of the world gets in, and with it the ever more extreme violations of basic humanity.

If this is where evolution has reached, then maybe its time something else replaced the human race, because there are larger and larger swathes of it that deserve their place at the top of the pecking order less and less.

And the vast majority of those swathes are male, and that just about says it all.

All you egocentric, ego-maniacal  buffoons, just stop. Or nature will stop you.