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Your Article: Are you just going through the motions or asking; “Well, how did I get here?” 29 December 2017

8 January 2018 By Port Elizabethan

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Hi Alan, Thanks for your very insightful article published recently about your thoughts on Conscription in SA in the bad old apartheid years. There is so much that people don't talk about of the past, and yet everyone was affected in some way and most South Africans nowadays walk around with what Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual author, would call a "Pain Body" of painful experiences from the past. And as you've mentioned, the hurtful legacy of our country's past continues to make itself … [Read more...] about Your Article: Are you just going through the motions or asking; “Well, how did I get here?” 29 December 2017

Are you just going through the motions or asking; “Well, how did I get here?”

29 December 2017 By Alan Straton

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As I journey along this path called life and reach this certain age destined to haunt me for eternity I find myself critically examining my feelings and, in the words of Talking Heads, I ask myself; "Well, how did I get here?" The lyrics (* see bottom of article) now read like a hymn for male depression. Over the last few months I have been boring anyone who would listen with my theories about why so many South African men of the age 50 to 60 appear to be suffering from depression. So many of … [Read more...] about Are you just going through the motions or asking; “Well, how did I get here?”

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