I had a visit, earlier this evening, from a removal man. He’s going to give me a quote for moving the contents of this house from this town to Rugby.<\/p>\n
That’s probably because I’ve found a house up there that I really like, and I’m trying to get it.<\/p>\n
I seem to have had a row with a friend. I am confused and hurt by this, in equal measures.<\/p>\n
My propensity for fuckups not withstanding, I thought this relationship was incapable of being damaged even by my trademark butterfingers approach to building strong bonds.<\/p>\n
I’m a bit down, about this, to be frank.<\/p>\n
No unfunny jokes about being Frank or Earnest, please.<\/p>\n
Anyway, in other news\u2026<\/p>\n
This weekend I was having a slightly drunken conversation with a friend about people we know on Twitter.<\/p>\n
And by that I mean people we follow on Twitter, not just people-we-know-in-the-flesh who are on Twitter.<\/p>\n
We came to the conclusion that there are a couple of people we follow \u2013 who we have followed for a few years \u2013 that have changed.<\/p>\n
And because they’ve changed, their Twitter voice has changed.<\/p>\n
They have become someone other than the people we originally followed.<\/p>\n
Their (now) strident and cacklingly intolerant voices are unpleasant.<\/p>\n
They have become less pleasant people.<\/p>\n
Less pleasant ‘to know’.<\/p>\n
And also, they have become unpleasant to ‘listen to’.<\/p>\n
Which is a shame.<\/p>\n
They used to be nice people.<\/p>\n
And now\u2026?<\/p>\n
Not.<\/p>\n
But people change, right?<\/p>\n
Things occur in their lives and, as a result, they become someone else.<\/p>\n
A lot of things have occurred in my life.<\/p>\n
Some pleasant, some unpleasant.<\/p>\n
And yet I honestly believe that I’m still me.<\/p>\n
Still true to me.<\/p>\n
My beliefs.<\/p>\n
My values.<\/p>\n
I think I still retain the essence of the person I was ten years ago.<\/p>\n
Twenty years ago.<\/p>\n
I’m comfortable with my feelings, and this shroud of emotions and sensitivities still feels like a second skin.<\/p>\n
I guess this is why I am confused and hurt.<\/p>\n
Because I have had a row.<\/p>\n
With a friend.<\/p>\n
With someone I care about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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