Pub wisdom

Spotted chalked on an A-frame blackboard outside a pub—you know, the kind that usually advertise sausage and chips, locally brewed ale or a quiz night—on the way home from a walk on Hampstead Heath:

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

So true. And I guess its such a hard challenge because we care about what other people think about us, so we react to our perceived victimisers' judgements and, in judging them back, become their victimiser in turn. Sigh.

Saying which, walking down St Andrews Street in Cambridge earlier today, I also saw on a church noticeboard this quotation from Martin Luther King written on a poster campaigning for justice in Palestine:

Until all of us are free, none of us are.

Seems like the universe is trying to tell me something today.