1. Shit happens, especially when there is no toilet paper or a hand water sprinkler anywhere.2. Cliches are annoying, and true. Especially the one that says, "Beware what you wish for", in a very Final Destination kind of way.
3. Swine flu is an epidemic; so is marriage.
4. You are still young to do things you are yet to do.
5. If you choose to, you can be too old to not do things that you don't want to do.
6. Mills & Boon is a phase.
7. Age is a number, concept, biological fact and more but actually, rather less.
8. You are more vulnerable than you realise.
9. You are stronger than you know.
10. Everyone has a psychopath in them, that in the right - or rather, wrong - circumstances, can be quite murderous.
11. Once bitten, twice shy. Twice bitten by the same spider, you will suffer from arachnophobia.
12. It is heartbreaking when plans don't work out.
13. ''To do" lists are comforting.
14. Not knowing what is ahead is scary.
15. Knowing what is not ahead is liberating.
16. The idea of possibilities is enough to look forward to another day, any day, day after day.
