A journey into the mind

Where it begins

Having started work straight after university studying Business Management and then marrying, fathering two children somewhat sooner than most had expected, he’d actually started writing the first novel just before his first child was born, and personal business endeavours had truly begun to bear fruit.

An awareness

Willing to see the absolute best in people while not suffering fools too gladly, or succumbing to anger too hastily, he’s an optimist by birth with pessimistic tendencies due to the environment and experiences which have moulded him. Capable as most are of compassion, hence loving from and with the heart, he’s very much a believer in personal liberty. As the years go by he believes that an individual is responsible for their own behaviour, although their environment is certainly an ingredient in the formulations of their personality and by extension their actions.

Internal expression

At times opinionated, he doesn’t like being told what to do. Who does? As such not all precepts are good (the law, after all, is an ass). One should not have to refer to a book – of statutes or even scriptures, be they hundreds of years, maybe even millennia old – in order to determine in which direction their moral compass ought to be pointed. He detests waste, in all its forms, material or otherwise. Throwing perfectly edible food away is unacceptable – put less on/in the shelf/fridge/plate in the first instance. If you have a case to make, argue it, persuade him. Does anyone really like being preached to? As such, he’ll often go against the grain, swimming against the tide, just because he can.

A sense of purity

An equal opportunist, he’s certainly not of the belief that women are merely baby/home-makers. Who, after all, gave birth to all those ‘great men’? People can marry (caste, creed, colour matter not), love and make love with whomever they chose, as long as it is amongst consenting adults. Each individual must be judged on their own merits, one size does not fit all.

A mistaken identity

Therefore an individual, first and foremost, he’s unwilling to be pigeon-holed in any measurable way. Just to start with, he’s a man, a husband and lover, a father, a son, a brother, a cousin, a brother in law, a son in law, an uncle and a friend. A second generation Brit – born and bred – England is his home. He’s spent most of his working life as a business-man. Away from work he has been a martial artist, and is still a health fanatic…