I am the universe

Let’s draw a line under the positives and focus on the reason I underwent a reincarnation at 30. My 10 year career as a plumber and gas fitter had reached its grand, shitty, crescendo. I ended up taking a job at a secondary school, not any old school, but the very school that I went to in my teens. I know this sounds dramatic, but it was a nightmare. People literally have nightmares about being back at school, that old teacher who hated them looking down their nose at your failures, well, that was me, I was stood at the end of that teacher’s nose, holding a mop bucket.

In the process of getting on with ‘working a job I hated to pay the bills’ I fell; I fell really fucking hard. They say that depression manifests differently for everyone, for me…