Growing Up
My upbringing was both difficult and blessed
Our parents insisted on education so we could make our way in the world.
My mum gave us a lot of kindness
I had a very difficult relationship with my dad, he was volatile. I don’t know what today’s medical world would have diagnosed.
I also don’t know what he went through growing up in India and then moving to England in the 60’s.
Culturally, England was a very different place then.
One thing we never lacked for at home was food and I found solace from his rages and my loneliness in bingeing: eating, drinking, and also writing, reading, watching.
My studiousness fell off as did a lot of my ambition.
into adulthood
This led to gross overeating and over drinking.
But that’s in the past.
