Post by Mark Webb

Positivity Post of the Day It’s a universal truth that your friendships change over the years. As is natural. But it’s a very sad truth that when you become disabled - or indeed if anything else ‘awkward’ happens in your life - that that accelerates. People drift away, never to be seen again. I gave a popular TEDx talk on the topic a couple of years ago. That’s actually fine in my case: with chronic fatigue as one of my overbearing symptoms, I need downtime as much as I need socialising. So I wanna give a shout out to the gang of hooligans below. They have all put up with my bad dad jokes, my appropriate-in-the-80s innuendos, my short term memory loss, my reliance on Chardonnay for decades. And more often than not I need an awkward haul from a chair to a wheelchair to a car seat nowadays. Eek… Mark Deverell, friend since age seven. So 50 years of grey shorts, midnight feasts and sneaky cigarettes aged eleven. Sarah Prior, with a shared love of, and adventures in France dating back to 1991. Michelle Waldron, first my pr agency account director at Disneyland Paris circa 1996, then my boss with a grown up job back in the UK, early noughties. Peter Robinson, fellow David Lloyd Clubs dude. Where triathlons and running machines were intrinsic to our work routine. Steve Chalker, fellow school dad whose three-year-old son we briefly lost at a house party. I am so very grateful to those who stick by me as I fade away… That’s over 150 years+ of friendship right there. Mwah! AltText Five selfies with dear friends. Love ‘em all and I’m not afraid to say it to them. Fifth selfie features a guest appearance by the beautiful Mrs W… Link to TEDx talk in comments.