A step back

Jim Dodge, from the excellent “Rain on the River” book.

I’ve had enough of a lot of things at the moment, mainly to do with work and the unavoidable ‘off switch’ that seems to accompany working a longish notice period, but there’s other stuff too.   I’m going to tune out for a bit – ignore the message boards, ignore the news, just enjoy football for what it is, a fun diversion.

I drove my parents mad asking “why?” every five minutes when I was growing up; I’m driving myself mad now.   My degree was in psychology:  why do people think what they think?  My job is market research:  why do people think what they think?   So you can see why I’m like I am.   I have a million books aimed at finding out more about all sorts of things.   To find out why.

I think I need to just let it all be.   Things are what they are.  Sometimes we’ll win, sometimes we’ll lose, some people are always going to love Jimmy Bullard even when his passes are more dangerous to the Barnes Wetlands centre than our opposition; some people will hate Seol Ki-Hyeon even if he scores a hat-trick against Chelsea then then wins Strictly Come Dancing having saved Dame Helen Mirren from a terrorist attack on the way to the BBC.  Fine.   I’m not going to try to understand anything.   No, I’m just going to admire highly skilled athletes doing cool things with a football for a couple of weeks.