Comedian "Spider" from Manchester used to do a joke as follows:

Why did Princess Diana cross the road? [gleefully, with a sweep of the right hand] Momentum!

That's not the sort of joke I'd tell on stage, but it's been in my head a lot recently. I think it's because of the number of things I see around me which are happening for one reason alone - momentum.

I think it's important to challenge, question and explore the things that happen around you. Why is this the way it is? Because it just is? Is that really a good reason? Why are you doing what you're doing? Because you decided to? Ok, was your original decision sound? If not, why are you still doing it? Was your original decision sound at the time, but is now no longer relevant? If not, why are you still pursuing it?

I don't think that our targets in life should be like a long unsatisfying sex session with Magnus I've started so

Celebrities on the toilet.

I'll finish Magnusson.

This is why critical thinking is necessary. It goes against my earlier blog post about wanting a sense of closure. It's really hard to abandon something part way through. Yet it's also wrong to use momentum as a way of holding yourself and the people around you to ransom until something unnecessary or non-beneficial has been carried through to some sort of climax.

And that's that really.

As you were.