Living an Uncertain Life

<p>From war child to wisdom during 90 years of active living Eric Kitchen deals with death and disaster and a whole lot in between. Much history of the world which the family lived through is woven through these pages. </p><p>The book <em>Future Shock</em> by Alvin Toffler influenced Eric's thinking at the time. It warned about the rate of change and humankind's inability to keep pace. Eric likened life to being on a fast-moving accelerating train and looking back along the track with several branches ahead unseen or untested.</p><p>Written in an easy-to-read style able to be picked up and put down his story outlines a lifetime of experiences good and bad which shows the will to live and how the human spirit prevails.</p><p>Eric considers the following words ascribed to Sir Winston Churchill who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953:</p><p>When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which had never happened.</p><p>Eric also realised through the process of writing this book that the only constant in life is change itself.</p>