061 • I promise last week I had a good reason not to post a newsletter issue
Welcome back to Fundamentalised,
All I can do is apologise for the pause in shared publications last weekend. I have a reason for this, which I’ll share now…
It all started a little over a week ago - I went back to spend some time with my family in Bristol. After spending Friday night with them and playing cricket (and performing very well if I do say so myself) on the following Saturday, I headed out to the city centre that night.
Legend has it, as I can’t remember anything of what happened, I got sucker punched by some scumbag that materialised on the streets of Bristol.
Many hours later on Monday, I woke up after being ferried between hospitals in a coma for most of Sunday and I came to the conclusion that something was quite badly wrong.
Eventually, I caught up with my family and the friends who were involved in the evening I spent in town. I learned a little more about what happened, but I still haven’t recovered my memory and now I doubt that I ever will.
However, after almost a week in the hospital, they deemed me to be in suitable enough shape to be discharged, and I made my way home.
Even to this point, I struggle with fact recall and writing takes a little longer than normal but I’m grateful it’s not worse.
Now, however, I’m going to segue this story into what I’m doing in recovery to stay on track and avoid boring you with pointless details.
I could describe the pear pieces in juice I had whilst I was in the hospital but even in my reduced capacity I think I can be a little more tactful.
So anyway. To start with, I’ve been sleeping a lot. Normally, I’m the last guy to embrace taking a daytime doze but my body’s sending distress signals, and I’ve been listening to them and taking a lot of naps.
I’ve also tried to keep as busy as possible with Fundamentalised.
It would have been easy to skip things and use it as an excuse to not do the work for the following week, but I’ve found that it’s something that energises and invigorates me.
And that’s the piece of advice I want to give - find the activity for yourself that’s something you can’t avoid even if you have a brain haemorrhage. If what you do is something you have to psych yourself up for and put yourself in the best mood for every day, you’re fighting against the current.
Make it something you like, taking the small steps and compounding improvements into account. Then no matter what, you have something to do and feel satisfied with doing it.
This is something that I’ve become a lot more aware of in the last week and I’m very grateful for.
I’m sorry I can’t provide a longer or more nuanced insight in this piece but I’ll be working my way back to it always from now on. And I thought this nugget of insight was very timely considering what happened to me.
Thanks for staying by my side and reading, and I’ll talk to you soon,
-- Theo
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