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I realised that people found it much harder to picture the average patient as someone who was unfortunate, someone who had been a victim for most of their life, who was never given the start in life that they needed. What they wanted to believe was that some people were born degenerates, or that they were evil to the core. That wasn’t my experience.
Magpies are the cleverest birds, you know. They symbolise many things, too. Most people think they symbolise cunning and bad luck, but to me they’re magic.
After work I sat out on the lawn chair and watched the bats.
Same!
All the time I found myself growing accustomed to this new rural life. There was air here, and it fed the soul.
The human mind is fragile, built upon tiny impulses of electricity sending signals to the rest of the body. Our thoughts, our feelings, our language, it all comes from the brain, so when one of those little electric impulses goes haywire, we follow suit.
He was in pain, and it ached to watch.
Did any of us have much choice in life, or were we all marching to the beat of our own circumstances?
The problem was, I had the kind of brain that enjoyed reaching into the depths and revealing my worst fears to me on a regular basis.
Placing my foot on that step was a moment I’d been dreading, but in reality it lasts a mere second and then it’s over.
It’s strange how your first impressions of a person can so dramatically alter your view of their past behaviours.
