Flame on, Burn desire, 10 years on.

I am always stuck for things to write on the blog, part of doing this again after 10 years was to push myself, so today I had the idea to look at the post from this day 10 years ago. It turns out that it was a big day back then, so I've reproduced the post with its picture.

I’m back, at work that is. For the friends who don’t know me a bit of history, I have been away from my job for the last 6 months due to the effects of stress. We all suffer from stress and put up with it, so to admit to being off work with it feels like admitting that I had sexual disease. But that is one of the problems, we don’t talk about it, people around you (maybe even you) are suffering without any real need.

With me it crept up on me over 2 years, slowly changing my personality and how I interacted with people, till I went to the doctors with what I thought was an illness which turn out to be a symptom. It was only after 3 months of recovery that I realised just how bad I had been. Now thanks to the support of work, friends and family I am well on the way to a full recovery, being back at work being just a small part of that, this blog is another, all the comments pick up my spirits no end, my target is to be better than before and I will get there. There is no real test to see if you are stressed, for me I would look inward are you happy, sad or do you just don’t care, if it’s the last one then talk to someone, it will help.

The image for today is the full view of the old merc.