It's Not Me, It's You

by Jon Richardson

Mistakes are caused, in the main, by a failure to plan properly, try hard enough or pay enough attention to detail.

The sea is there to remind us what insignificant pieces of shit we all are.

I have always thought that ‘unrequited’ is such a clinical and ugly word. Portraying none of its ability to devastate and define a person’s life, it sounds rather more like the sort of word that should only ever be used by accountants and financiers.

Dependence on others is a weakness, plain and simple. This military outlook has become a defence mechanism, a necessary response to a world that is constantly telling me that I am wrong in the way I choose to live my life.

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Dreams are an excuse for unhappiness; they allow us to think we would be happier and healthier if only we had what we were looking for.

I try to avoid leaving my house before nine unless absolutely essential. Travel before nine is a living hell of suits dragging unwilling bodies onto already packed buses and trains or into cars with cold seats and loud, frightfully cheerful breakfast DJs.

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