Spring

At long last, my winter coat feels too warm to wear and I don't have to have the heating on so much. My hot-water bottle is becoming redundant; spring feels as though it truly has arrived. Coupled with reading Bill Bryson's "The Short History of Nearly Everything", the life force feels truly ascendant in my life at the moment. Bill Bryson's writing in this book is verging on the edge of zen or mystic philosophy. It promotes the feeling of a kind of mystic perspective on your life and what you do with that life. One cannot help but re-evaluate the aims and ideals one holds close when viewed from the vantage point that he postulates in this book.

Briefly, he tries to describe the origins of the universe in a tangible way and speaks about human evolution from a very personal perspective. He talks about how every single one of your ancestors since their emergence from the primordial mud-bath until your birth has been healthy enough, lucky enough, intelligent enough and attractive enough to ensure that you came to be on this planet. You have around 650,000 hours here, if you're lucky. So, how to spend the next one of those 650,000 hours? It makes you stop and think about time and how you spend it, doesn't it?