A: That I have never really felt I fit well in to mainstream society. I am always happier on the fringes. That's where you can most easily find other querky interesting characters.
A: Air, water, food, shelter and love
A: I try to admit my mistakes as soon as I can. I make so many that it's not always easy.
A: My hobbies are taking care of my animals and in my spare time I love realising my fantasies whenever and however I can.
A: I have no idea how I do it, I just do. Most of the time. I don't always succeed
A: Engage with people I love, build relationships with my pets and indulge myself in my vices.
A: Spending time in the Bush in Africa. Seeing animals like giraffe, elephant, lions and monkey living wild, albeit within protected zones
A: I have been fortunate to have enjoyed a long, deep and intense loving relationship with another man. He died of AIDS eventually but the bond lasted right to the end. 24 years of laughing and fighting and standing together through thick and thin. Everyone it seems wants that sort of an experience but few are lucky enough to find it.
A: I have great difficulty in sustaining the group delusion that the human race is civilised or responsible.
A: I have been able to learn how to allow my subconscious to take care of all the heavy lifting involved in navigating the complexities of life in a society that quite frankly seems mad more often than ordered.
A: Being who I am as much as can be. Jung called it individuation and claimed it was the goal of our existence. He also declared that all adults should have at least an hour of playtime every day. His playtime was to go to his sandpit and build sandcastles for an hour every day after lunch.
A: I like to travel when I can stay more than a fortnight and live in the community whenever I am. I don't like hotels or resorts. You don't know whether you are in the USA or Switzerland inside a global chain hotel
A: I was one of the first people in the UK to host HIV, or HTLV3 as it was then known. I probably copped my first dose in about 1983. When the test first for HIV became available, to my enormous surprise it came back +ve. A sombre faced nurse took me into a private room (tissues supplied) and told me I probably had 3 or 4 years left to live. Soon my friends started to get sick but I did not. Then my friends started dying at an alarming rate. I was living in NYC at this time and it was fierce. Weekdays volunteering for GMHC and weekends partyinging like there was no tomorrow because we didn't think there was. When I was still alive and well in 1992 I re-tested. Another +ve result. I was termed a "slow progressor" which I thought made me sound a bit retarded. Nowadays I am known as an "Elite Controller" (much better) and the doctors know why. I am one of 5% of the population with a genetic mutation that hugely slows down the rate at which HIV can enter my body's cells. Better than a lottery win. Lucky hardly suffices. It was my experience of living through the death and destruction of all we had fought for that shaped me into the man I am today. I have faced down my own mortality.
A: I cook from scratch when I can and I am fitter than I deserve to be
A: I am primarily guided by my instincts and emotions. My intellect keeps watch and always has the final say. But my visions and deeper insights come from my automnous and infinitely more powerful subconscious.
A: Being able to laugh at myself. Life is for living. We can be responsible and efficient without going being glum.