A Pattern of Sorts

<p>We often encounter difficulty when trying to reconcile our memories of events with what actually happened. In the almost inevitable mis-match our mind plays tricks on us and what we have recently learned and how we have recently lived gets in the way and colours the past. </p><p><br></p><p>Pressed to recall his own life the challenge of juggling myth and reality is dangerously fraught for Luke - especially given the story of his remarkable emotional high and the catastrophe which followed it.</p><p><br></p><p>If there was one thing I knew about Luke it was that he liked certainty and closure; he hated loose ends and from what I could see they upset him. But looking back now is that really true? I mean did I really think that at the time or is it just me seeing into the heart of it now that it's all too late?</p><p><br></p><p>Is that just me saying it now remembering it the way in which I have chosen to remember it providing a gloss an overlay in order to give the impression that throughout it all I was calm and in control?</p>