I’ll be honest. You’re not in my thoughts a lot of the time. Whoever you are. Even if you’re my wife.

I know. It doesn’t sound very romantic. Or caring. It probably wouldn’t make for a very good song:

”Darling…I hardly ever….Thi-i-i-ink …..about you…..ooh, ooh, ooh….”

Yes pop lovers, that was It Won’t Last Long by The Every Bodies.

Even those things which we describe as our passions, even our obsessions, are only a brief flicker in the ocean of consciousness. Something, seemingly more mundane and less important, will soon jump in and say - “give me a little bit of your time”.

And we will oblige.

Realising this might be a path to holding on to it all with a little bit of a lighter grasp. Coz, it will soon disappear anyway.

So, what are you thinking about right now?

It won’t las….….ach, you know the lyrics already.