People I know don’t regularly talk about things that freak them out about life. Either they don’t ever feel that way, or they choose not to speak about it. If they never think that deeply about life, then perhaps either they suffer from idiocy or they are gods. If however they do worry, or panic, or wake up in the middle of the night in cold sweats with a cyclone of thoughts tearing through the paths of their brain at light speed; I can still only speculate about the reasons they might withhold this information from the world around them. I’ve said before that we can only share a limited amount of the information that passes through our brains; if our mouths and minds had a race, we’d be left blabbering at the gun, while our heads would be running backwards through the finishing line. So ahead of paranoia and worry, we choose to express cake recipes and conspiracy theories, hilarious anecdotes and the behaviour of TV celebrities, weather reports and lolcats. Taboo topics don’t get a mention because they are taboo, and topics are taboo because they not easily talked about. Bring them out in the open, I say. Be less selective about the things that come out of your mouth and so will other people. The worst that could happen is that you’ll offend someone, the best could be life changing.

I asked my girlfriend when the best time to do my thinking was. She said “in the shower on a Sunday night”. So I did. And this is what I came up with.