Another thing…

Talking of revisiting childhood things that never made sense at the time…

I keep getting these tiny ‘epiphanies’ with stories from childhood. I hear a fairy tale or something and suddenly realise it’s not just a random sequence of events, but they actually relate to each other and form a set of causes and effects.

When I was a child, I didn’t realise, not even until relatively recently, that stories actually form a complete picture. I always just saw them as a string of events. I didn’t even think about them being connected or in a particular order; it never occured to me that they would be.

I love these lightbulb moments. It feels like I get a thrill out of things and see them afresh when for most people, they have long ago become mundane, unnoticeable and of the past.