Thursday 1 January 2015

New Day, New Start

This was it, new day, new start.

He was putting behind the years of doubt, of cynicism, of anticipated failure. Today was the day he was going to turn his life round, a more positive him. He was no longer going to let the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune dampen his spirit and belief. He was new, reborn

For the first time in over ten years he was going to leave the house. He was going to take his inventions and patents to a solicitor and he was going to let the world decide whether he was genius of dunce, fool or visionary. Dear God, even his simple machine for creating electricity from dust had powered the house for six years.

The boots on his feet felt strange, the coat like a straight jacket but he was not going to be ‘broken’ this time. With his plans for the sun powered desalination plant and sketches for his ‘pop up’ environmental card construct’ homes amongst other ideas under his arm he opened his front door.

The sun hit his eyes, the air chilled his lungs and he took one giant step forward. He would not let life knock him back. Not today, oh no, not today.

Who knows what life and the world would be like today if the neighbour’s dog had not evacuated its bowels on his doorstep earlier that morning.


Sitting in his armchair seeing his plans and boots going up in a curiously scented fire he relaxed. ‘Same sht, different day,’ he thought soberly.

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