There is something about the story of how when the old Grandfather clock strikes thirteen that a lonely boy gets to meet an orphan girl called 'Hatty' in a different time period via a garden that no longer exists that really taps into who I am and reminds me of my own life story. Sadly, I have never managed to quite find my 'Hatty' and relationships have been a no-go area for me so 'Tom's Midnight Garden' is I guess for me a chance to be Tom...
I also have a good cry if I watch 'Casper' - especially at the end where he comes back to life as a real boy just for a while. Life is not just about making records, having fun, working or going on holidays to see the world its about forming close, loving relationships, sharing and caring and one way and another I have missed out on HUGE parts of that - in spite of how lucky I have been in other ways.
It might seem an odd thing to do near Christmas to go to a show pretty much guaranteed to upset me but sometimes you have to 'live the dream' even if the consequences are pretty harsh, you know?
If I come away that night having felt something thats no bad thing! Christmas should all be about feeling and I only wish there were more people in the world these days unafraid to try feeling rather than choosing to be scared of everyone and everything! I see conversations on the Internet about what is socially acceptable now and hang my head in despair!
"Is it sexist if a Woman asks for a female taxi driver" being one of the latest. By gum, in the 'bad old 70's' the sex of a taxi driver would not even have entered anyones head! You wanted to go somewhere so you called a cab and a taxi driver turned up at your door and took you there - end of! Have we REALLY slid so far down the ladder these days to even be scared to death of getting into a taxi with (potentially) a member of the opposite sex? Well, if we have give me Christmas (MY way), Tom's Midnight Garden, a lovely romantic ghost story and a HUGE box of tissues any day!
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