Relationships are important, even when you wish they weren’t.
I quite often wish that I could function adequately without any personal connection to other people at all.
There, I’ve said it.
I’m an introvert, albeit, according to my son, a highly socialised one.
While many struggled with the concept of lockdown, and the reality, I absolutely loved it. When I raise the matter with others, I find an extraordinary number of people feel the same way.
That’s strangely heartening.
The upside of ageing is that I am finding relationships that may have been strained in the past for some reason have mellowed and warm communication has been re-established.
Often after decades.
Not in all cases however, some people like nothing more than to grip a long-held grudge firmly by the throat and never let it go.
I find this incredibly dull.
I know who they are because they live in my head, and they won’t shut up.
But – like Ko-Ko in ‘The Mikado’, I’ve got a little list …
As someday it may happen that a victim must be found
I’ve got a little list — I’ve got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be undergroundAnd who never would be missed — who never would be missed!
I’ve got ’em on the list — she’s got ’em on the list;
And they’ll none of ’em be missed — they’ll none of ’em be missed
dykiegirl 