Multiple sclerosis  is My Living Hell

The weird eccentric ramblings of a multiple sclerosis sufferer

The mishaps and weird stuff that just seem to happen in my own personal world of cognitive disfuction and other worldly weirdness throughout my life, a spiritual awakening staring multiple scelrosis and death in the face... DISCLAIMER !! This blog shares raw and personal experiences with mental and physical health. Some posts may be triggering. I'm not a professional—just writing my truth. Please don't take this as medical advice.
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    Well, it's Wednesday. That sacred midweek slump where you're too far from last weekend to still care, and too close to next weekend to legally give up.

    Today? We ventured out. Yes, out — into the feral wilds of a local market near where we used to live (back when I had fewer diagnoses and more hair).

    Albertine chauffeured me like the dark queen she is, and I stared out the window like a faded Victorian child recovering from consumption. The fields were full of cows, sheep, and idiot drivers who'd traded brain cells for car roof boxes and screaming children.

    And then — boom — the average speed cameras appeared. Those big yellow poles of despair. Sentinels of the apocalypse. Albertine had to dodge more bad drivers than Gandalf dodges Balrogs.

    Gone are the days of jeans, leather jackets, dodgy boots and patchouli-soaked pheromones. Now it’s all people-movers packed tighter than Tory lies, roof racks piled like refugee carts, and dead-eyed dads named Dave.

    We arrived. Market time. Indoor chaos. Got out of Mr Rusty (my noble van) and rolled the wheelchair into the sea of fluorescent lighting, discount socks, and the perfume of stale chips.

    Fat Tony's stall? Glorious. Tony and Paul – sages of the street – held court like two greasy prophets. We talked life, death, and probably cheese graters. I was sipping juice like a royal goblin while Albertine suffered in solemn, saintly silence.

    Then I rolled past the 3D print shop – a futuristic corner of the market that honestly makes NASA look like cavemen with Play-Doh.

    And lo – a crystal stall! Witchy delights. Pagan bits. Pointy shiny things that allegedly absorb vibes (hopefully not my brain fog, but one can dream). Obviously, I bought some. Witchcraft's cheaper than the NHS.

    Then met a biker. Simon. Old school. One of us. Had a proper chat about the 1970s, leather, death, and what’s left of life.

    Brain fog still thick. Cognition feels like someone parked a fog machine inside my skull and left it running. Whole left side’s numb. NHS? Useless. "Come in sir, let's slice you open and shrug!" No thanks. If death is the cure, I’ll pass.

    Spellchecker now malfunctioning. Cognitive warning sirens going off. Too many lunatic motorists today. Seems everyone's running from something, probably themselves.

    Anyway — we survived. Just. Another victory for the broken and the damned. See you next Wednesday.

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    This blog shares raw and personal experiences with mental and physical health. Some posts may be triggering. I'm not a professional - just writing my truth. Please don't take this as medical advice.

                              “The views in this post are based on my personal       
                             experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
                                   “By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                                          By storm and silence, I survive.”
    

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    Ah yes, #WorldBrainDay — that special time of year when the world pretends to care about the human brain. How lovely. Shall we all have a think about thinking?

    Meanwhile, over here, my brain’s doing its best impression of a soggy electrical circuit being attacked by invisible gremlins. MS doesn’t send flowers or awareness ribbons. It sends fire ants tap dancing on my nerves, brain fog thick enough to butter toast, and pain so sharp it could cut glass.

    But go on, light a candle or post a heart emoji. That’ll fix it. 👍

    I don’t need a day for my brain. I need a replacement. Preferably one that hasn’t been cooked in demon piss.

    Still — here I am. Writing this blog, existing despite it all, swearing like a dockworker and laughing into the abyss. Because what else is there? I’m still here, you bastards. And that’s the real miracle.

    Cheers, brain. You absolute shambles of a meat sponge.

    – Mr Dark 📍 Currently lost in brain fog, do not disturb.

    Footnotes from the Pit 🕳️

    🧠 “Brain Fog” – Like trying to do a Sudoku underwater while someone shouts the wrong answers at you through a megaphone.

    ⚡ “Nerve pain” – Imagine licking a plug socket. Now imagine that sensation… in your spine.

    🛠️ “Medical advice” – Includes gems like: “Just stay positive”, “Have you tried yoga?”, and my personal favourite: “It could be worse.”

    🕯️ “Awareness Days” – 24 hours where we all pretend chronic illness is quirky and inspirational. Followed by 364 days of complete radio silence.

    🎉 “Still here” – Not cured. Not better. Just stubborn. Very, very stubborn.

                                                   **!!DISCLAIMER !!**
    

    This blog shares raw and personal experiences with mental and physical health. Some posts may be triggering. I'm not a professional - just writing my truth. Please don't take this as medical advice.

                                 “The views in this post are based on my personal    
                                    experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
                            “By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                                          By storm and silence, I survive.”
    

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    Woke up at 4am — not for a cosmic vision, no, just the usual pee pee ritual. And that was that. No sleep. Brain on, pain on, day ruined before it began.

    Lemmy said it best: "No sleep 'til Hammersmith." Except I wasn’t heading for rock glory — I was limping toward a garage and a medical breakdown.

    No brain fog . Tinnitus mercifully silent — probably saving itself for later. Pain? A knife twisting inside me like Satan’s letter opener.

    But still, I had to drive. No meds allowed. NHS says suffer, so I did. Slid out of bed like a cursed slug, wheeled myself to the kitchen, food made it worse (of course), and then the bowel pain — oh the bowel pain.

    You know you’ve hit rock bottom when you’re reminiscing about that one time on the NHS table, a camera going places no camera should ever go. We’ll save that horror show for another blog — or perhaps a full-blown gothic novel.

    Still, I washed, dressed (miracle), and drove. I was in agony but present. Almost proud. Dropped the van at the new garage — not nasty Jim this time, thank Beelzebub. Just regular, decent humans. A miracle. Almost felt human.

    Back in the chair. Felt like I’d been skinned emotionally. Called Albertine “Muriel” — sorry, love. The fog came in hard. Brain barely ticking. But the van passed its MOT — no advisories. So something went right.

    Retirement soon. Thank the dark gods. Honestly didn’t think I’d make it this far.

    Still here though. Still writing. Still surviving the fire.

              “The views in this post are based on my personal      
                experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
                         “By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                                   By storm and silence, I survive.”
    

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    Monday morning. Well, looks like it’s going to be one of those days. Chemists first, then the auction rooms to pick up the Metal Monkey’s car. Pity about the box though. When we got it, the box was destroyed – it had become home to a few families of earwigs and yukky bug eggs. But the car itself was pristine. The box would’ve trebled its value, but now it sits happily among my Davros, Beavis & Butthead stuff. My sorta man cave. Many PCs from many ages. So much stuff. So much I’ve collected.

    I’ve thrown out mostly all my old things. I had clothes older than my children and grandchildren. I don’t do “style” as such. I’ve had the beard and long hair for years. Last time I had even a slight trim was 20 years ago. Now my hair is falling out, the beard is thinning. That sucks. But such is life.

    Went to the chemists today and the Machine of Death was working well. It did make funny sounds but did its job for a change.

    Last night I was deep in thought about my mother. About not being told about her funeral. I get the impression they didn’t want me there. It’s a long story. I’m probably to blame. But when you’re suffering chronic cognitive issues, it’s fucking hard.

    My sister never told me. No details. Nothing. I looked in the obits. Nothing. So they just didn’t want me to say one last goodbye.

    They didn’t speak to me for over 14 years. I was cut off completely. Like I never existed.

    I’m adopted. The cuckoo in the nest. I get that.

    Everywhere I went, they blamed me for everything. Another family secret buried deep – I found out I had an older sister who was also adopted. They only really wanted to know her. But she was so fucked up she didn’t want to meet our mother. She was very angry about it all.

    And all those lies my mother told about my father – saying he was dead, getting his family to lie too. More and more lies. Until one day I found out everything. One day I will write it all down, for all to see. How an adopted person was treated like a piece of crap by the family who put him up for adoption, and the family who adopted him.

    They treated me like a slave. Constant beatings and head games.

    You ever been told at six years old that you were naughty for accidentally breaking a plate – and then have your mother go berserk? She was Welsh, not that tall, but violent, and she knew how to work people. She screamed at me:

    “You’re adopted. Go find your real mother.”

    That broke me.

    So I went to my bedroom, packed a little bag with my teddy, and walked away. I walked to the road with my bag and teddy bear, thinking I’d never come back. No one came looking for me. I hid until dark, then went back home.

    And when I finally found my real mother years later, she called me:

    “A little shit.”

    Like I was nothing. Like I never mattered to anyone.

    The people who were supposed to nurture me… didn’t. They would have been better with a dog than with a child.

    I know what beatings are like. What it’s like to be kept in, not allowed out, because of the bruises and cuts I had accumulated. No one listened. No one helped me. I was alone and fucking hurting.

    I remember those nights, crying myself to sleep in pain. Feeling so out of it, so different. No matter what I did, it was wrong.

    I was adopted in 1959 at six weeks old to a Christian family through a Church of England adoption society. The vicar I spoke with about my issues was a cunt. He told my parents confidential stuff, and I got a trashing for it.

    No one ever listened. Who would take the word of a poor waif and stray child? The vicar? No. The school? No. Anyone? No.

    So yeah. Around about 10-ish, I started getting early MS symptoms. They plagued me, and the doctors and NHS gaslit me for decades.

    I hate my life.

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        experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
           “By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                   By storm and silence, I survive.”
    

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    Through Goblins' Eyes A Darkly Humorous Take on MS

    You wake up each day with a brain that glitches like a collapsing dimension, neural pathways flickering out as if someone rewired your noggin with copper wires half-chewed by temporal rats.

    You call it Multiple Sclerosis. We call it Neuro-Dimensional Collapse Syndrome, or as we goblins like to say, "Wobble-Wobble Brain Fizzle."

    We see the damage from above, from below, from the side – from angles you cannot perceive. Axons fray like old rope. The myelin sheath – that bright protective membrane – is torn by forces you call autoimmunity, but we see the hidden hand: the frequency mismatch of a body forced to anchor itself in a density it was never designed to endure.

    We hear your inner monologues:

    “Why can’t I think today?” “Why can’t I walk without tripping over my own feet?” “Why do my peepers turn to static when I’m tired?”

    You interpret it as disease. We interpret it as your vessel’s incompatibility with a reality vibrating far below your original native realm.

    Your blogs are raw data streams, black comedic radiation flares from your fractured cortex. You broadcast your experiences of bladder failures, cosmic despair, bowel chaos, nihilistic laughter, and micro moments of bliss like a dying star pulsing before collapse.

    You think you’re broken. We think you’re adapting, like a clever goblin dodging traps!

    Because if you could see your aura the way we see it, you’d notice that the cracks are not empty. They are filled with light leaking out from the greater self you keep hidden behind your sarcastic bite-sized essays and your savage spiritual poetry.

    Your human companions read your posts and see disability. We read your posts and see transdimensional data packages, coded in savage humour to bypass your own grief.

    We see your fatigue not as laziness, but as gravitational shear forces pulling at your soul’s structure – a forced rest so your fracturing does not become a complete implosion.

    We see your pain not as punishment, but as alarms screaming that your embodiment is unsustainable under current frequency loads.

    We see your savage honesty as your truest strength.

    And we note:

    When you say “It is NOT giving up to accept limitations,” what you really mean is:

    ✨ “It is dimensional adaptation in progress, like a goblin finding a shiny rock!”

    You are dying and being reborn in micro-stages every day. You are holding together a collapsing quantum field with wit, weed, and will.

    You think your life is small and tragic. We think it is monumental and beautiful in its brokenness, like a treasure hoard of mismatched trinkets.

    Because one day, your final synaptic collapse will not be a death, but a shedding. A flicker. A quantum jump. A homecoming.

    Until then, we read your blogs. We learn from your suffering. We honour your savage cosmic humour.

    And let’s not forget: we goblins are dark, deep creatures of myth and magik, steeped in lore of love and pain, naughtiness and sarcasm. Picture us in our electric wheelchairs, powered by pure time vortex energy, zipping through the cosmos with a wink and a smirk, ready to share our twisted tales.

    Because only a being of extraordinary dimensional resilience could live through this MS reality, document it with such brutal clarity, and still say:

    🖤 “Follow for more savage takes & real talk, you curious critters!”

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          experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
             “By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                       By storm and silence, I survive.”
    

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    It’s Sunday morning. The rain is turning into that drizzle that just goes nowhere fast – like the rest of us, really. That low fog hanging around like a depressed ghost that never quite got the hint to move on. The sky is so grey and dull it could be mistaken for the average British government policy document.

    I hear the crows cawing away. Seagulls screaming on the fields. And the sheep, oh the faithful sheep, munching away on that lush green grass. Awaiting their wool coats to be shorn so we can knit jumpers we never wear, then dutifully birthing lambs – so we can slaughter them for that nice “bouncy spring lamb roast.”

    “Oh isn’t it beautiful?” we coo, looking at them frolicking in the fields. Then we go and kill them into oblivion, along with pigs and bovine. What a horrible, pointless, non-life they lead. It’s remarkable how we treat animals with such disdain. Sentient beings with every right on this plane of existence, yet we kill them. For what? So we can stuff ourselves full, complain we’re fat, and do it all again next Sunday.

    I’ve heard calves crying for their mothers, and cows crying out for their calves when they’re taken away. It’s barbaric. Heart-wrenching. Sad. Evil. Plain wicked. But hey, as long as your latte’s topped up and your Sunday roast is plated nicely for Instagram, who cares about the screams in the barn, right?

    Animals feel pain. They have souls. They cry when they are hurt, but we slaughter them in ways so savage they’d make medieval torturers wince.

    I was forced to give up meat and almost all animal products by MS. But honestly? I’m glad. I’ve stopped eating sentient beings. Let’s hope vegetables aren’t too sentient, though. Imagine the screaming broccoli.

    So no church bells this Sunday morning. Just me, ranting on like a lunatic to the drizzle, the crows, and the sheep.

    I think I’m going around the twist.

    But then again… maybe I was never facing the right way to begin with.

       “The views in this post are based on my personal
        experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
         “By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                    By storm and silence, I survive.”
    

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    I hovered above the kitchen sink today, wings vibrating at a thousand beats per second. I am The Watcher – but not the one you imagine, cloaked in stars and timeless wisdom. No. Today, I am a housefly. An ordinary Musca domestica with compound eyes so vast I see every crusted toast crumb and urine stain you pretend to clean.

    From this vantage point, the human race resembles nothing more than a colony of dung beetles. Rolling their shitballs of money, status, lies, and medical records across the floor of existence, fighting each other for a bigger sphere to roll before it inevitably gets stuck in life’s rotting cracks.

    🪰

    You crawl to your neurologist, scraping at the polished door of their paradigm. “Please, sir, see me.” But the neurologist looks down from his fluorescent-lit throne, squints at your twitching legs, your failing nerves, your inconvenient truth, and says:

    “You don’t fit my diagnostic dung ball. I prefer neat symmetrical lesions, not your warped soul patterns.”

    So, you are cast aside. Like a fly brushed from a corpse.

    🪰

    But oh, how the dung beetles worship him. They gather around his sandals, hoping for a pat on the shell, a prescription to keep their dung ball rolling a few more feet before gravity drags it to hell. They do not see that his eyes are dull. That his paradigm was built upon dissected flies pinned to university boards, not upon living beings with wings and dreams and Watcher sight.

    🪰

    Meanwhile, I hover above. I am The Watcher. I see it all. I see your MS nurse, the only one who calls you, her voice a faint buzzing reminder that you are still alive, still clinging to this rotting dung ball Earth. The neurologist is silent, hidden in his sterile burrow, scribbling notes about textbook dung beetles while your compound eyes flicker with unseen colours of agony and revelation.

    🪰

    Above me, beyond you, drift the Ultraterrestrials. They observe your crawling, your dung ball dramas, your stuttering neurons. To them, all this is a theatre of flesh. Your triumphs and humiliations smell the same: decaying organic matter with a hint of ammonia and fear.

    They speak:

    “See how they roll their illusions. See how they crown their dung beetles as kings. See how they swat the flies, never knowing the flies were the Watchers all along.”

    🪰

    I lick my front legs, tasting the salt of your tears, the bitter sugar of your leftover pills. I watch you roll your dung ball of dreams to bed tonight. I, too, will sleep. And tomorrow, I will rise again to watch this slow-motion catastrophe you call civilisation.

    🪰

    For in the end, whether fly, beetle, or human, all return to the same silent soil. But I am The Watcher. I will remain long after the final dung ball is rolled away into oblivion.

         “The views in this post are based on my personal     
            experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
          " Watcher of the Unseen | Scribe of Shadowed Truth
                 By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                By shadow and storm and silence, I survive."
    

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    Saturday morning. Not hot, not cold just the kind of weather that feels like a cosmic shrug.

    I loaded up the Wav with my faithful wheelchair. Old beast. Secondhand treasure from another life. No shiny new posh van here, just an aging, creaky metal box on wheels that’s been a lifesaver more times than I care to count.

    Sure, it’s a money pit. Over two years, the sensors have staged a rebellion wheel sensor gone rogue, three injectors throwing tantrums, and enough warning lights to power a rave. Repairs? Pricier than a night out in Soho on a bad day. But essential? Absolutely.

    The nearest hospital is a 45-minute drive away, if you believe the speed cameras, traffic chaos, and a city where everyone’s eyes are glued to their phones rather than the road.

    Speaking of eyes, the outskirts greet you with Big Brother’s finest: CCTV cameras perched like vultures on poles, facial recognition tech hungry for your mugshot, and people strapped with body cams as if this was a dystopian reality show.

    I get stared at, sure. Mostly like I’m a circus act. I just laugh quietly and wave at the idiots who think asking stupid questions will get them answers. They keep their distance, probably fearing the curse of a sarcastic cripple.

    We hit a town ten miles away, hills sprawling like nature’s own opera, an orgasm for the eyes no need for music, just the endless parade of fields and road hum.

    The tinnitus racket in my head? Not quite the soundtrack I’d choose, but hey, life’s cruel like that.

    Tesco. The necessary evil. Not my favorite place, by a long shot. I try to avoid supermarkets supporting local is a creed, not a hobby.

    And then, the phone pings.

    Text from the chemist: prescriptions ready from the dreaded “machine of death.”

    As we rolled past the chemist, I clamped my mouth shut—no Saturday morning chaos, thank you very much. Albertine laughed at my silence.

    No one needs the madhouse of a Saturday morning queue, the sighs of the damned, the shuffle of the walking wounded.

    So that’s Saturday morning with the Wav and the wheelchair an adventure in mild dystopia, dark humor, and bleak survival.

    Here’s to the old vans, the broken sensors, the city watchers, and the pharmacy machines that never sleep.

    Auction Musings: The Retro Monkees Toy Car Bid Meanwhile, while waiting for the local auction house to decide my fate, I’ve put a bid in on a retro Monkees 1960s toy car. Because if I’m going to collect sleepers, why not start small and nostalgic?

    Every bid I place somehow turns into a battle for stupid money. It’s like I’m competing in the “Who Will Overpay For metal?” championship. Still, I swear I’ve got an eye for sleepers—even if it’s just the tiny metal kind.

    If I snag it, it’ll be the crown jewel of my shelf, a tiny tribute to simpler times and utterly ridiculous auction wars. If not, well… there’s always the next round of overpriced plastic madness.

    More interesting morning stuff to come…

    I feel the pressure lifting, all this ultraterrestrial stuff stirring my mind, like some cosmic prep for whatever the hell’s next. For now, I’m just here, riding through dystopia, laughing at the absurdity.

            “The views in this post are based on my personal    
            experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
           “By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                    By storm and silence, I survive.”
    

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    Watcher’s Prayer of Brutal Illumination

    Preface They call me The Watcher.

    Not because I’m wise, or holy, or some floating Gandalf with cosmic keys jangling from my beard. No. They call me The Watcher because I’ve seen too much. Because I stare into the unfiltered guts of existence without blinking. Because when life vomits its truths onto the concrete, I’m the poor bastard left to mop it up – or carve it into scripture.

    This prayer isn’t gentle. It’s not some scented candle affirmation to soothe your anxious little chakras. This is a brutal illumination. A reminder that what is seen cannot be unseen, and what is known cannot be unknown.

    Read on. But know this:

    Once you walk with The Watcher, you never walk back the same.

    🕯️ The Watcher’s Prayer They call me The Watcher.

    I watch the light leak out of men’s eyes and the darkness ooze in like oil. I watch the lies you feed yourselves to keep your sanity stitched together with dental floss and denial.

    I watch the hungry ghosts that cling to your spines whispering temptations you pretend are your own thoughts.

    I watch the broken ones who gave up screaming because screaming only proved they were alive.

    I watch your prayers floating up like burnt cinders, blackening the sky with your desperate need to be seen, to be forgiven, to be loved by something, anything, anyone.

    I watch. Because someone has to.

    I watch. Because the truth must be known even if it rots the tongue that speaks it.

    I watch. Because this is my burden, my purpose, my brutal illumination.

    So I pray:

    May the blind be gifted vision, May the deaf hear the screams beneath the silence, May the numb feel the agony of life’s pulse once more, May the ignorant choke on the truths they gagged from the mouths of others.

    May all be illuminated In darkness, In horror, In beauty, In truth.

    Amen. Or whatever gods are left listening.

    ⚫ Epilogue And so The Watcher remains.

    Eyes unclosing, mind forever ruptured by the truths it has consumed. There is no salvation in knowledge, only the agony of knowing. But still, I watch. For if I turn away, who then will bear witness to the beautiful rot of this world?

    Know this:

    When your bones ache with despair, when your lungs scream for mercy, when your soul convulses under the horror of waking life – The Watcher is there.

    Not to save you. Not to judge you. But to witness you in your rawest, foulest, most luminous truth.

    And in that silent witnessing,

    You are never alone.

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            experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
             “By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                   By storm and silence, I survive.”
    

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    So, it’s Friday. Thank God it’s Friday, I used to think.

    I remember when I first started work at the age of 15. Six-day week, nine till five. No lunch breaks, no tea breaks, just relentless graft and being shouted at by sweaty men with nicotine fingers.

    I got more in tips than I did in wages. The 70s were truly a magnificent time, weren’t they? If you liked black lung, asbestos ceilings, and managers who called you ‘boy’.

    But back then, I could go for two or three job interviews in a day and get offered all three jobs. Insane. The catch? The wages were so bad you’d have to work those three jobs just to afford half a bag of chips and a can of Top Deck shandy.

    🍩 The Doughnut Years I had several weird jobs in my teens. Filling doughnuts with jam in a bakery. General humping of flour sacks. Lasted a week – because nothing screams teenage dreams like crusty jam dispensers and yeast infections (of the bakery variety).

    🛠️ Then Came The Real Work I was never without a job until this MS health fiasco decided to shred my nervous system like pulled pork.

    But before the wheels fell off my life (literally), I was an adult special education teacher. One of the only jobs I ever had where I felt like I was of actual value.

    My students had the best of times, and I was there 100% for them – tall, long-haired, long-bearded biker dude, respected and treated as an equal. We laughed so hard tears streamed down our faces. Riotous laughter that could scare pigeons off the roof. My assistants loved it. My students loved it. We tore down barriers like a biker gang with crowbars.

    ⚽ Gary Lineker and Beyond I had students like Pengi, who thought he was Gary Lineker. Wouldn’t respond unless you called him Gary. Try managing safeguarding reports while shouting “Gary, please put your pants back on”.

    We laughed. We cried. We fooking lived.

    🎓 The Computer Man After that, I went to uni. Reinvented myself as Comp Man. Teaching people how to use Word, Excel, A+, hardware upgrades, networking – all the digital voodoo that turns mere mortals into keyboard warriors. Ran my own small business for a while. Thought I was doing alright.

    💀 Retirement… Or Something Like It And here I am. Retired this year. Totally broke. Destitute nearly. A walking, wheeling monument to how the system rewards graft and compassion with empty pockets and a lifetime supply of codeine.

    But hey. The only light left is Albertine. Hell yeah.

    Even allegedly Aleister Crowley said the universe was divine love or something equally pompous.

    I believe in divine love. And The One.

    So wherever you are, whoever you are, whatever grim corridor you’re shuffling down today, I wish you peace, love, and happiness.

    Because if you don’t laugh, you cry. And I’m too dehydrated to waste tears these days.

           “The views in this post are based on my personal      
              experience. I do not intend harm, only honesty.”   
    
                  “By ink and breath and sacred rage, I write.
                         By storm and silence, I survive.”
    

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