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Describe your life in an alternate universe.

I realise I have always lived in an alternative universe.

My grandmother on my mother’s side(Nanny),once said I was  like Pollyanna from a T .V series that was running in Ireland at the time.Even at five years old I always tried to see the best in everything and to see the bright side.

Nanny must have known what my parents were going through,my dad losing his job and the family’s  lovely house in Dublin and having to go and start again living in a horrible tenement flat in Glasgow with my dad’s stepfather.

Their little four year old daughter ,oblivious to the downward spiral and just happy to be cared for and looked after by dedicated parents.Even with everything going on the seven of us,mum,dad,three brothers and two sisters were a cohesive unit.

I suppose that was how I grew up always believing that there was a possibility for a happy ending and if not then it was necessary to stay positive and make the best of the situation.

So where does my alternative universe fit into my previously described start in life?

Well I am social and positive.My alternative universe is the people I meet in my daily life who constantly moan about everything.

That alternative  Universe  one that I have to visit and be present in,but I am so glad to remove myself from it when the time comes  and to  settle back to my pretty otherworldly happy place which is my true Universe.

My true Universe is where  perspective and fulfillment is.

The alternative moaning Universe  is dire,but exists with its only purpose  to make me miserable.I have a bucket full of empathy but it is finite ,just like energy is not in infinite supply and we have to conserve it.

Moaning,it seems  is infinite and has its own scientific rule to represent endlessness and the fact it will never stop.So by definition moaning exists in a Universe far beyond what us Humans will ever understand.

I discovered it and I am naming it the Spleen Vent Universe.

In summary I’m currently in my true Universe and will at some point will  visit Spleen Vent Universe again ,but will do so with my bucket of empathy refilled and my batteries recharged.