Rae of Light

As promised in my previous post, here for you to enjoy, hopefully as much as I did. My top five Good things of 2015 I’d like to begin my countdown with paying off my bank loan.    This financial weight has been with me longer than I care to remember.    It was entirely my own doing due to silly expenditure and living beyond my means.    Thankfully, the decision to focus on my writing and the support of wonderful friends and family helped me figure out the things which really mattered the most. It’s taken a good long while to pay off my loan.   Along the way I’ve had to decide between wants and needs.   And I’ve come to realise that what I want is not necessarily what I need.    So now I always ask myself: “Do you want it, or do you need it?” Incredibly, with less annual income than I’ve ever earned, I find myself more contented than I’ve ever been. According to my trusty filing system, I s...

So we’re heading towards the new year and it’s time to review 2015 – the good, the bad, the ugly.  Now because this post is going to follow the style of those oh so familiar television count downs which happen at this time of the year, I’m going to start with the ugly and work my way to the good. The main ugly for me has been the government’s insistence on putting troops into Syria.   I hate any conflict, no matter what the reason.   Jingoism is a concept I can do without.    For me, any time the government decides to send troops into battle I can’t help but think of the impact it has on the families of those soldiers.  Not to mention the impact for the people having to live in war torn countries.   There is just too much death in the world and I don’t support the idea of increasing the tally.   I often feel that if I was born male and living in a country where conscription was mandatory I would be a conscientious objector. ...