Dear future hubster

Dear future hubster, please remember, because we will have to teach our children this: just because you didn't mean to, sometimes your behaviour does harm, and your original intentions provide very little comfort to the person who is hurt. It doesn't make you a bad person; just as being a good one doesn't mean you'll never do anything hurtful.

Dear future hubster, there will be moments when you'll find me quietly sitting in a corner, looking rather emotional and sad, for no other reason than the sudden nostalgy for the Tshukudu sofa, and everything else it meant. Nothing you can do about it, it's just a moment.

Dear future hubster, when somebody thinks that you're a rock star, watch out. Not only because then the girls come easy and the drugs come cheap , but because once you're perceived as a rock star, there is no way back. You are a rock star. Somebody decided that there is something out of the ordinary in the way you make your choices, and from that moment on, you're being watched. For inspiration, for reassurance, distraction or perspective, you're being looked at. That comes with responsibilities, dear future hubster, and no, you don't get to choose. As a rock star, that you didn't ask to be, you have two important duties.  You have to show the rest of us that it's possible, that there is always a choice, that dreamers aren't necessarily all lunatics.  But you also need to make it clear time and again that being a rock start is not always a cake walk. You owe it to your fellow rock stars to tell the world that having and making choices is often ...

Dear future hubster,  we have all been waiting for quite a while to be able to say " Go home, 2016, you're drunk ", and in a few hours, we finally can.  But, carrying on with the analogy, don't you think that when a friend is getting out-of-control drunk, we usually see it a long time coming, and not just magically notice the damage done? And, depending on the relationship and the level of responsibility we feel, wouldn't we try to either intervene and stop the train from derailing completely or at least publicly acknowledge that there is a potentially dangerous situation? It is no different with life and the universe on a larger scale. If you feel that 2016 was the shittiest in recent history, please take a moment to wonder whether you've done anything to make it any less awful. And maybe leave some room among your resolutions to do a little more next time around. 2016 got this drunk because we let it. 2017 will do the same if we let it.  No point i...

Dear future hubster, for people like me, who love their selected few and care about them and enjoy a good laugh together, but who also like time and space for themselves, the holiday season can be tiring. We can be contented but feel drained, cosy in a crowded living room but exhausted after it gets empty. Therefore, dear future hubster, I suggest that on the third days of Christmas, my true love (you) and I go for a long recovery walk, enjoy the fresh air, and then read our respective books on opposite ends of the sofa. I may cuddle closer as the afternoon goes by, and maybe even talk to you by dinner time.