The only thing I've ever wanted in life is to have a happy family. When I was younger, my interpretation of that was to get married and have children, and we could all live happily ever after. Simple. What I hadn't appreciated was that by family, I didn't just mean my offspring. At the same time, I've always had strongly held principles about 'the world', and how I wanted it to be. I wanted everyone and everything to live in a state of peace, love and harmony.

Whilst I could see a world 'outside' where people fought, hated each other, harmed others etc, I did my little 'bit' to try and change things. Over the last seventeen years, I've come to realise that the whole world is my family, and that the only way to change anything in my world, is to sort out the conflicts that were within me, being represented in my world.

And so I've worked hard to resolve these conflicts. Yes, it may have taken me a long time to come to this realisation, and a long time also to slowly resolve my conflicts, but I've taken the time I personally needed and I at last feel that I've got a good handle on how life and love work.

Now I create my Utopia.

Bridget Whiffin