7 January

Does your life have a purpose? It’s the sort of question that is easily ignored when you’re young, but can gradually gnaw away at everybody as they age. What’s the point of it all? ’Having a good time’ seems a common purpose now, but that’s like drug addiction, there are only so many ‘highs’, and they need to be more and more extreme to satisfy you. I studied philosophy. It’s easy to mock philosophy, in an age where these sorts of questions aren’t asked much. But ultimately the more you ignore them, the more they come back to bite you.