Friday, 30 December 2011

Barometers of Wellness

How familiar does your front door look to you? What about the pathway up to it, or the stairway? What about the street?
Mine is up three flights of stairs, with a communal main entrance to the street that is shared by 15 other flats. My street always looks much the same, but sometimes the stairs and corridors seem distorted in some way, or perhaps the wrong way around. I know when this starts to happen, that I'm probably not very well...
Many, many years ago I was probably abused in the end-of-garden wash-house of a neighbour. I don't have a clear memory if it - only a flashback; but what gives the game away is the position of that wash-house within its garden: it too, was the wrong way around - my logic being that the wash-house at the end of my garden was the right way round!
Whether these are at all connected I don't know - although it's certainly true to say I get a bit panicky when I think things are the wrong way around, so who knows?
Oh, and as you've probably already worked out - my stairwell's all distorted just now.

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