A Message to My Family

February 2011 On December the 17th 2010 Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi a young street vendor from Tunisia was so disheartened by The System that he took his own life by setting himself on fire. I am witnessing the collective few become and overcome the collective many. A changing tide of humanity is sweeping across a region that will affect not only that region but the rest of the world also. How? I have my theories but let the future answer that and then let history question it. My story is also of change. I wanted to change the person I had become; a tormented alcohol and drug addict. Following a phone call to my father my story continues on from my last book Two Years: in the mind of a recovering alcoholic from the last few months in prison to coming home exploring and putting into practice all of those thoughts and insights I was having about life the universe and how to live and get fulfilment from it. This has led me to become a better father and partner an existence away from the turmoil and stress a state of mind free of the demons that had troubled me for a lifetime. This has led to a platform of contentment a budding sense of inner peace from where I can progress even further. This story is about how I initially created this new life through choices I had made with the help of the unknown-to some- and unexplored forces around us. So what more could I possibly give to my future generations than the key to how it all became so the way of life in A Message to my Family: Believe In Yourself.