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Life in the Lost Lane
A collective of English Gentlemen

Friday, February 7

L3 has certainly dried up as of late. I intend to keep the blog as a nice route to those I am geographically moving away from.
New challenges await me and, at least I expect a new pace of working.

Spending time at this place has worn me down.
Not sure whether knowing that I have an exit route has heightened my feelings of boredom, anxiety and frustration that have, increasingly cast me into my darkest places. A metaphorical place where I find the worst possible refuge. A quiet stillness that fills me with no answers, only sadness. A retraction from my normally over exhuberent self.

Signs
There are, I believe a multitude of factors for the current malaise. It would take a constitiution more robust and I believe, less sensitive than my own to not be affected by the increasingly negative world we are fed through our media. Many of the people I feel closest to also understand this world negativity around us. The negativity I find so hard at times to fight against resonates with many of the people I consider friends. Yet there still seems to be no absolution from this darkness, least of all in the company of good, fair and just people.
We are aware, but impotent.
In the past, my own beliefs were different. I felt that...
STOP - that'll be too long to discuss. What is important is that my previous coping mechanisms no longer cope. My pessimism as to the human condition no longer holds.
Am I more 'mature' now? Have I learnt something about the human condition? Am I simply being wooly? On reflection, there seems to be an irony deep here.

I am more believing in the individual and his or her potential moreover to the individual's need to take on responsibilty. In this I find no solace. My bar has been raised and all around me people are failing. Not the people I know, be they friends or associates. Those failing are our leaders, our managers, our 'superiors'.
Haven't the energy to carry on now.

posted by E! @ 1:05 PM

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