Tag Archives: Death

Obsessive Thinking

Recently I have been plagued by all sorts of obsessive thoughts, thinking out absurd consequences of every kind of scenario. I’m not sure, but it seems as though this kind of thinking and pessimism goes hand in hand with the social anxiety that I experience. The main themes of my thoughts recently relate to a [...]

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans #2 – Do we need to plan?

As John Lennon said: ‘Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans’. I wrote about this in a previous post (which you can read if you follow the link) and it was really about how fearing life can hold you back from even making plans to begin with.
Another thought that arises [...]

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”

This was a lyric sung by John Lennon in his song “Beautiful Boy”

The meaning behind this saying is that life is unknown and our future is full of possibility. It also means that, whilst we may have things all planned out, something may come along and crush those plans. This does not mean to say [...]

Cyclone Nargis/ Evidence and Memory

Watching recent news footage of Burma the thought occurred to me of the utterly undignified way in which our culture needs to show us the evidence for us to really ‘understand’ what is happening. But who agrees for their dead corpse to be shown around the world, limp and dirty. What happens to their memory? [...]

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