Thursday 8th May 2026

I am sitting at the coffee shop, again.

Just before I start a wild day of packing and admin before the Badger Divide. I was meant to run this AM but honestly my body has never really been so tired. That’s what you get for doing a half Ironman during a working day???

I’m really excited for this trip. To get that sense of adventure and feel like I’m living feral for a bit. I’m buzzing to be able to do it with these new friends.

The State of Things

I do feel overwhelmingly helpless about is the state of politics in the UK. I feel genuinely sad that people haven’t been able to choose hope and love and have instead decided to be angered at the wrong things.

Millionaires don’t make us wealthy. They hoard it for themselves and they are sitting there laughing at you and us paying our taxes to funnel it up. It’s some sick and twisted rules.

I don’t mind paying taxes if I see the benefit, but when you fleece public services of their resources and consistently underfund them, people won’t want to work for them and ultimately have to go private, which drives our taxes up.

Some things in life should be free – or i guess funded by the collective

You’re closer to being homeless than you think. And just because you got lucky with a bit of love and support and safety, don’t think you’re above anyone struggling.

“What use is it getting annoyed? You only cause yourself more pain.”

Community Over The Game

I made a commitment to try focus more on community and try change my wee world – with the aim to play as little of this fucked up game as possible.

But it’s hard to look your neighbours in the eye knowing that we are not the same. And it doesn’t mean people can’t get there, but open your heart and mind. Don’t choose hatred for humans.

I’m hopeful in change happening locally and around me. I’m hopeful because I need to be in these times of deep, deep inequality.

Gratitude

I am lucky and so grateful to have a job. To have family and friends who love me. To have goals and ambitions. To have the mental capacity to pursue them. To have a fit and able body. That I am able to choose my own fights. To have enough.

To be able to read, write and think.

To be free of mind.

And because of this, I need to do my best to try impact the small world I operate in.

Why I Keep Trying

It can feel heavy. Like it’s all too much.

Who the fuck am I to even think like this?

But maybe it’s useful.

Sometimes I want a break, but it gnaws at me to try make change happen. And not for my own gain.

I deeply feel these ideas are bigger than me and it’s been planted in me.

To make it stop?

I need to try get it out my brain.

And try.

And try again.

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