has seen a large number of departures<\/a> from the field of popular culture.<\/p>\nThe fields of TV, film, music, literature, and even pop-academia has seen many notable checkouts from this mortal coil.<\/p>\n
Yet it is a sad fact that this unfortunate trend will continue in 2017.<\/p>\n
When radio and television popularised\u00a0itself in the 1960s, and drew in to focus the publicly-driven worlds of social and pop culture, the media was programming us (us being the population of the early 21st Century), for an upward, and steeply increasing, bell-curve of widespread, heart-felt losses.<\/p>\n
I predict that 2017 will see far more checkouts from the world of popular culture.<\/p>\n
And 2018 many\u00a0more again.<\/p>\n
We don’t know when we’re gong to checkout.<\/p>\n
But a brush with the checkout desk changes us.<\/p>\n
I have been told that I have become more self-centred.<\/p>\n
I offer this without comment.<\/p>\n
I acknowledge that I have become more emotional, in a ‘heart on my sleeve’ kind of way.<\/p>\n
And I now look at things (people, situations, events) in much greater detail than previously.<\/p>\n
This isn’t unusual, apparently.<\/p>\n
A significant number of heart attack survivors report heightened, post-event, emotional and critical states.<\/p>\n
I have no idea what 2017 is going to bring.<\/p>\n
There are plans.<\/p>\n
But plans are subject to change.<\/p>\n
And I can’t share all of the plans here because secret.<\/p>\n
But I can say that I plan on being here all through 2017.<\/p>\n
And 2018.<\/p>\n
And that I plan on being here far, far in to the future.<\/p>\n
I have people to love.<\/p>\n
And people to annoy.<\/p>\n
And fast motorbikes to ride.<\/p>\n
And many, many other plans.<\/p>\n
So I’m going to be here.<\/p>\n
A little emotional around the edges, maybe.<\/p>\n
But I’m still going to be inhabiting this mortal coil.<\/p>\n
And loving people.<\/p>\n
And annoying others.<\/p>\n
So yes, as this post started out saying.<\/p>\n
Some uncomfortable truths.<\/p>\n
Get used to them.<\/p>\n
I’ll see you around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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