Ego, Mind, Memory, Emotion
In keeping with the idea in the "About Me" section, that all the world's a stage, we can divide our lives into three acts - childhood and parental influences, adult family and work, old age and retirement1. When I am on holidays, in Kerry, walking the beaches and watching the scenery, I find myself looking back at my life and trying to make sense of what has happened and what is going on. One of the major transitions happened 24 years ago. I was sitting in a house in Glenbeigh, overlooking the beach with the Dingle peninsula in the background. I had just come through a very rough time at work and had spent too much time in the pub trying to forget it. The thought occurred to me "that there must be more to life than survival". The conclusion I came to was that, rather than being about survival, life is about changing state. After the holiday, when I got back to "the real world" of work and routine I made a lot of changes. I went on a very strict die...