“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin

A new Government for an old one. What will it all mean? Those of us who are blonde can only guess. Others, less blonde by nature, might prefer to read the papers, watch the news and make intelligent surmise.

Mugs.

In fact, none of us has any control over the future. We only have today and our influence in the moment. If we understand that and spend our time being truthful and guided by our core values – rather than dishonest and ego-driven – I believe we will find true happiness.

Or we can be even more simple-minded. I once asked my inner self, or my higher self – whatever you want to call it – where I would find happiness. It replied thus:

“In the sound of rain hitting a leaf”.

Profound.

Although….call me a pedant, but it’s not always raining. And who wants it to be?

Deep.

There may be other ways to find happiness.

What about a bacon and egg sandwich from a roadside mobile café at two-thirty in the morning on the way back from a gig with the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra? An experience lost to me now that I’m over the hill and a faddy eater. But ah yes, I remember it well.

Any advance on a bacon and egg sandwich? I’m open to suggestion.

All I do know is that embracing change is crucial to finding personal happiness.

At first, for me, changing every aspect of myself was what I needed to do in order to survive cancer. Then it became a hobby. Now I strive each day to be the best person I possibly can, in between bouts of exhibitionism, shoplifting and tyrannising old people. Only joking. Except about the exhibitionism. See below for a photograph of me in my undies.

James Baldwin said, ‘Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

Only one question remains. Who the buggery bollocks is James Baldwin?

Learn more about Janice’s story.

Not at all embarrassed
Janice appeared in Series 3 of Embarrassing Bodies for Channel 4 undergoing a nipple reconstruction (click here for video) and her book ‘Getting It Off My Chest’ is probably the funniest book about cancer ever written. learn more.