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What I Wanted To Be When I Grew Up, When I Was 5
At the age of 5, I had some very clear ideas about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I have absolutely no idea where these ideas came from, possibly books I had read or something in a cartoon, but I remember being very, very clear. I had…
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The Majority is Stronger Than The Few
I had another dream last night, one where I was standing on a ledge of a building in New York City re-establishing a symbol for peace and community. I was alone in doing it, but I knew I was not alone in the sentiment of it. With the dream came…
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Unpolarising A Polarised World
I had the strangest dream the other night. I dreamt that I was told that change was coming that it was so fast and so extreme, we would ‘meet ourselves around the corner’. That expression usually refers to opposing political views. It means that when someone is left wing, they…
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Labour’s Book Balancing
I will say here and now, I did not vote for Labour in the last UK General Election. I didn’t vote Conservative, Liberal Democrat or Reform. I did not cast a vote for the first time since I was 18, and I struggled with that because I firmly believe that…
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What Advice I Would Give My Teenage Self
My teenage years were not, like those of many others, the easiest. To say the very least. Hindsight is a wonderful if useless thing, but if the teenage years weren’t the easiest we are often still carrying the scars decades later. But, with that hindsight, I would offer my teenage…
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Postponing Ourselves – Yes or No?
The point about postponing ourselves is based on the writings of Seneca, specifically a letter he wrote to a friend in which he asked why his friend spent so much time doing things he disliked for the purpose of one day enjoying the things he liked. In essence, postponing himself…
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The First Thing I Would Do After Getting Wonderful News…
Whenever I have had wonderful news in the past, I have reached out to others to spread the news. It might be my husband or my mother, but I have reached for the phone to tell them whatever the news has been. But there has been something I have done…
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The Influence on Your Perspective of Life After Significant Life Events
In August 2009, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. By the time it came to the formal diagnosis it was more of a hope it wouldn’t turn out to be cancer, but the initial referral to the breast clinic was wholly unexpected. To say it had an impact on my…
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What is my Mission?
This question was a writing prompt the other week and it really called to me. As I started to think about it, though, I thought – what IS my mission? Do I even have one? Does anyone if they truly think about it? And it got me thinking. If we…
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I Am (Not) Sailing…as the song doesn’t go.
There is one thing I am the most scared of doing. Something that does terrify me at a really deep level. That thing is sailing. I love watching the water, I could stare at the sea or at rivers for hours and hours on end. It’s so powerful, it can…
Louisa Simpson 