POL Arida - Survival Guide

The day before the day it ended seemed fairly normal. Like every morning, get up, check news, drink tea, pet dog and the rest. Why check the news? Well like most people its checking up that the world is as you left it last night, it never is, something always changes. The worst is when some old bugger you knew from the media dies, you didn`t actually know them, but it feels that way, totally illogical. I remember my Grandmother telling me ( she had no TV at the time) that she looked out of the window one moring and saw a train had stopped before the station and it had people running around it. Window news, confusion! until three hours later when there was a knock on her door to tell her that her husband had been killed by a train. He was 38 and died on November the 6th. I say this because this news reference has a follow up.

So when I was born years later I was brought up not to go near railway lines, good advice, I would be safe. Then in  a strange twist of fate when I was seven years old I woke up to find my mother in tears. My father had died of a heart attack whilst washing the car. The strange twist of fate being that it was November the 6th and he was 38 years old. Not a train is sight. Needless to say on the 6th of Novemeber when I was 38,
I stayed in bed with my fingers crossed. Illogical, but it worked.

It is a fact that we seem to remember more news black spots than we do the things that actually make our lives good. I cant even remember where I got my first shag, possibly because it was not on the news. Perhaps it wasn`t that good! Mind you some black news needs to be remembered as I look at the date today.

So after the news every morning at 10.30am, I masturbate. I have convinced myself this is required for my medical well being. "Oh God", I hear you cry, "too much information", but then again its just another box lying around. And its better fun than the daytime tv after the news.

"Nothing that changes can change without moving" So really what life is really about is movement which creates change every single nano second, you cant escape it or avoid it. Well unless its a train!