My fingers have begun typing this and I’m not really sure why, apart from the fact I’m optimistic and feel like I can get stuff done. I’ve recently become accustomed to the fact that my life is at the mercy of ‘baseline emotions’, and I can be happy or sad and these emotions are seemingly impervious to what’s occurring around me, but heaven knows I’m happy now. I’ve neglected this blog, evidently, and it’s always been at the back of my mind to remedy that fact, along with such things as revision and meditation (and actually to write a blog post on here chronicling my ‘meditation journey’ day by day). The speed with which I’m writing this post so far is actually unprecedented! At school, I once took part in a test in which my writing speed was represented as the abstract number sixty-five (one hundred was average, and below eighty-five was a cause for concern). But I’m a natural thinker; I consider a lot both in writing and in general and — and here’s an unplanned link — I try to stray away from letting my emotional reactions rule over me. Lately, I’ve been having difficulties with a friend, because I heard from various sources that he had been up to no good and hurting my other friends. I listened to both sides, and acted in a way which I viewed as logical, rational; I believed them and dismissed him as a friend. We argued and we caused scenes. But then we spoke, and I looked into his eyes, and I empathised. He wasn’t a cold, malicious person. And it wasn’t victim-blaming to entertain the idea that the situation was more complicated than it initially seemed; that both parties were somewhat at fault. But now it’s been resolved and I feel much more happy, wiser and closer to the person in question. I’ve got two weeks of Easter holidays stretched out before me. The sweet luxury of free time! I’ve spent this Friday finishing off Series Three of ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, which I’ve talked about on my new Twitter account. Using that account perhaps has made me love writing again recently. So expect some new blog posts on here soon. Okay, I think that’s it for now? That was a good way to spend twenty-five minutes.

Lots of love,

Archie.