3rd January:

Some things in life are just wrong. Like eating something whilst sitting on the toilet. Or getting drunk and telling your father-in-law that you may have married the wrong sister. Or enjoying any film starring Adam Sandler.

Not that your congenial host has ever done any of these things, you understand.

On the reverse side of the coin, some things in life are very right indeed. Finding 5 Pounds in the back pocket of your jeans, birds singing in the trees, sunshine streaming in through the window as you sit down to fresh coffee and hot, buttery brown toast. That kind of thing.

The majority of things in life have a peculiar capacity to be both right and wrong. Like love. Love, according to the popular ditty, is a many splendoured thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love. Love is also apparently blind. Or, more likely, deaf, dumb and teetering along a fine line between sanity and barking, dribbling madness. We all love and lose at some time or another. And then we come back for more. Our capacity for it is boundless, which is fortunate given that we don't always bestow it on people who are deserving nor share it for the right reasons. We commonly confuse it with sex, which leads to all manner of unfortunate situations, and we assume that it will live forever, when this is clearly rarely the case.

When love is wrong, it can make you feel like a hollow and empty shell. When it is right, however, you can revel in the rare and all too fleeting experience of feeling like a complete human being.