I forget which philosopher said it. In fact, I don't even recall if it was a philosopher. Still, the gist of what I DO recall - that depression is linked to looking at one's past, whilst anxiety is focused on one's future. The past. I've been a lottery winner ten thousand times over. Always had the right partner too. The right job. The right look. You name it. Never put a foot wrong. And why is that? We are all experts on the past. And then there's the future. The

We all, or hopefully most us, have an aversion to misfortune. Who likes getting ill, arguments or a flat car battery on a bitter cold November morning? When I was a kid, I used to watch Laurel and Hardy on the tv in the mornings during the summer holidays. Classic slap-stick style, it seemed that the 1920s and 1930s in metropolitan America held the real risk of a crated piano falling off a crane's hook from 40 feet up onto an unsuspecting pedestrian below at any given moment.

Atari game consoles were a big deal to 1980s British kids. I know that because I happened to be one of those for a brief while. While industrial relations frayed across the UK at that time, with Maggie Thatcher implementing her Iron Lady revolution, leading to demonstrations and strikes, kids held their own individual protests to their parents as to why they hadn’t yet got an Atari. Microwaves also pinged into the public consciousness around the same time. Less glamorous