Checking Out

by Nick Spalding

I am British, however, so I do the only thing I possibly can at a moment such as this. I go home and put the kettle on.

Totally feel this

You’re so worried that you have no time left, you’ve not even considered the idea that you might have plenty of time left.’

Mummy says I shouldn’t lie when I feel hurted. You. Shouldn’t. Either.

I’ve stopped worrying so much about what’s going to happen or what has already happened and I’m thinking more and more about what is. Right now. In front of me. And what’s in front of me is life.

Because that’s all I have. That’s all any of us have. Moments. Moments captured between a void.