Friday the 13th?

Today is Friday, the 13th. It is also the results of elections here in the UK, where I have lived for, ironically enough, thirteen years. Many people are making connections between the two. At @HomeCrazzyHome, we have joked for weeks about it being the beginning of the apocalypse.

But today has greater significance for us than superstition or election results. It is the beginning of a new way of life for our family. Today, my partner Alan Cox retires. Well, technically, he has to go back on the 31st for a day. So, I am calling this semi-retirement. And 2020 will be hugely significant with his official retirement and our wedding.

It is the juxtaposition of those two events which is the topic of today’s blog.

Life goes on…

There have been thousands of leaders, rulers, kings, queens, presidents, dictators, etc. over the five thousand years written history of mankind. Some of them good, some of them bad. A few of them truly monstrous. Atrocities untold have befallen whole groups and individuals. War and famine.

Yet, against all that, there has always been the individual.

If you examine philosophy, much of it comes down simply to the struggle between society/government and the individual.

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.”