You ask me if I remember? How could I forget that day. It happened on a long walk home, a walk I was forced to take. I left work and started the journey. An hour passed, another hour and then one more. I carried on, melting in the afternoon heat and still more than twelve …
Running out of time.
Yesterday's me:Confused.Helpless.Unsatisfied. Me before. Me not taking my shot, not writing like I'm running out of time. Me before swirls of show tunes, rap, dance, history, drama and fierce intelligence. Me before what Michelle Obama called "the best piece of art in any form that I have ever seen in my life", me that could …
Oh. A resolution.
Oh One, Oh One, Two Oh Two Oh. Oh. Yet another day. Yet another "milestone". Yet another opportunity for obligatory self-flagellation, self-aggrandisement and the imagining of a better manifestation of me a year from now. How will I get better this year you ask? Oh. Same unkept radical, mundane ways I promised myself last year, …
Where do I live?
I wish I lived where I live. I wish I noticed the colour of flowers and the beauty in the veins of the leaves. I hope one day I truly smell the salt of sea and feel love for the breeze on my face. I don't. I don't live where I live. I live in …
Show me some ID please. Part 2.
I have had some fascinating discussions off the back of Part 1, so the premise of Part 2 has shifted to present my thoughts on one of these discussions. There might be a Part 3 and Part 4 too. Race and sex are markers of identity we do not choose, but are visible to all. …
Show me some ID please. Part 1.
I have regularly felt compelled, nay, coerced, to create a "Personal Brand". A Personal Brand as I understand it is a set of labels that I might want to attach to myself such that I can signal my value to the world. I can see why a Personal Brand is valuable. It communicates to …
26kg of clothes every year is not enough
My wife turns on BBC news every morning as she gets ready for work. This morning, the BBC talking heads were discussing the problems of fast fashion. The discussion was underpinned by some ideas that never really got air time. So here they are: Fashion, to me, is two different things. The essential nature of …
A thousand miles from home
Yesterday I was in a country three thousand miles from home. I first met Ravi here many weeks ago. Yesterday he and I conversed. Ravi is the man whose job it was to bring me tea, coffee and water in the office. Ravi is from Gujarat. He flew a thousand miles to bring me tea, …
Poorly brewed
The Coca-Cola Company ("Coke" from here on in) is buying Costa Coffee ("Costa" ditto). I racked my brains this morning as to why. I thought to myself: "it can't just be because the Coke people have a lot of money and have decided to act like a private equity fund, can it?". Surely there must …
Why do we accept the hierarchy of football clubs?
Another post on some on football-related questions. The first one can be found here. When Liverpool have a decent player, it seems inevitable that they will move to Real Madrid (Michael Owen, Steve McManaman and most regrettably Xabi Alonso), Barcelona (Luis Suarez, Philipe Coutinho) or perhaps now Manchester City (Raheem Sterling). Why are some clubs …
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musings of an untrained mind 