I’ve been wondering just how long I could make it before the benefits of ‘giving up’ outweighed the cons. A few years feeling the way I do seems to have done the trick. I have so much going for me; a good education, a roof over my head, a wonderful group of friends and a brother and sister who love me. Unfortuantely for every good thing there was a bad thing; a hateful, cotemptuous father, an emotionally absent mother, an abusive ex-girlfriend, a run of incapacitating bad health. I’m an academic. So it pleases me to see this as a problem, just an equation that […]