Isn’t interesting how sometimes it is the little things that irritate us that can help to cause Change. Think about how that tiny bit of grit causes the oyster to produce the pearl. It sits inside its shell constantly abrading its delicate flesh, so naturally the oyster needs to protect itself against this and starts to encase it in nacre.

If we don’t like something or someone, firstly we usually try to ignore them, and if that fails we tend to attack them. If they still don’t go away, sometimes they can become our very best friends. If I think about the flavours I enjoy most today; all of them were unpleasant to me initially, things like chilli, black coffee, whisky to name a few.

Somehow, with some of these foods, I always suspected that I could grow to love them. Not necessarily so with some of the people I later became fast friends with. There are interesting lessons in irritants. What / who is bugging you at the present moment… and more interestingly, why do you really find them an irritation?

“My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.”  Elvis Costello