The world is a pretty strange place at the moment.
Year on year, things have just gone mad, haven’t they? 2020 was the first year of COVID and almost everyone had to stay indoors. 2021 was more of the same and 2022 sees Vladimir Putin doing his best to take the 21st century title of megalomaniac in chief.
I drove to work today listening to the radio and a point that was thrown out there as everyone tried to divine what could possibly be the driving force for that nutter to send his forces into Ukraine was the possibility that we’re all looking too big.
How many stories have you encountered, in books, or on screen, where the narrative is rollicking along with a multitude of threads that you have to keep hold of as everyone in the story works to resolve the action, but it’s something almost insignificantly small that allows things to fall into place?
Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Kay Scarpetta, all sift through huge amounts of information as they try to uncover the truth behind what’s ahead of them. It’s one detail that’s out of place that starts them considering what’s really going on but also, it’s another small detail which allows them to unlock the truth of everything so they can have the big explanation in the library where they unmask the killer.
A single new pack of razor blades in the bathroom cabinet proves that one character was lying because he has a beard. New earth in a flower bed by a window points to deliveries on the wrong days.
That small sliver of information is all that’s required to solve and understand everything but it needs that specific eye to be able to pick it out.
If we’re willing to look at every possible detail when trying to understand events and people we could be able to cut through to the real truth of what we’re confronted with.
Could you imagine what we could uncover if we looked that little bit deeper?
Stay safe everyone and may Putin finally recognise that what he’s doing is absolute lunacy and leave Ukraine the fuck alone.
Owen Elgie 