14 Jul 10 When it all goes wrong

I have been listening -  to an album called The Defamation of Strickland Banks by Plan B lately. It is the sad tale across thirteen songs of a man whose life goes from bad to worse all because he stayed somewhere too long and didn’t know when to just let go and leave it all behind.

It makes you think when your own life goes wrong how much of a spiral you can get into. Since the floods of 2007 which took the house apart, and ultimately led to the business faltering. The level of personal stress and strain has taken its toll on my health and the amount of money I ended up owing was so frightening that I could not bear to answer my phone or open letters.

Weirdly, all this time later, I have started answering my phone and all the people I thought would be threatening and demanding and frightening, like banks and credit card companies and solicitors and so on have all been really understanding. They have been really helpful and not scary at all. I still have to sort out the problems, but I want to do that and draw a line under it and they are actually very understanding and seem quite good about it.

If you’re in the same boat, just talk to them.