Markland Starkie
As we grow older we take in and process less and less information from the world around us. Of course. Which, say, is why it seemed to take such a crushingly long time until my next birthday when I was at primary school, yet these days it feels less and less exciting and more and more embarrassing to throw a party each year when the last one has really only just happened. Again. With this in mind, a friend recently told me that while, physically speaking, the average person reaches the mid-point in their life somewhere in their late thirties (terminal illness and accidents notwithstanding), in terms of what we actually perceive during our lifetime one’s mid-way point occurs around twenty. Here are twenty memories from the first half of my life:
Top-loading washer
Kidnap
One cat
Edgehill
Choir
Three cats
Piano scales
Summer biking
Sonic the Hedgehog
Florida
Four cats
Badminton in gardens
Kissing in a tent
Stratford Music Centre
Lunches at Safeways
Spun
Head-spinning whiteys
Videos with Pete
Norwich
Three cats
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Markland Starkie is an occasional musician, mostly under the name Sleeping States. A new Sleeping States album, In The Gardens Of The North, will be released on August 17th 2009. Markland currently lives in Bristol.
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