The Life Doctor: LIFE IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK

The Life Doctor: LIFE IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK: Let's get it clear from the start, something that most people know but a few seem to have problems with, "Life does not revolve ar...

The Life Doctor: TRUST

The Life Doctor: TRUST: We like to think we are trustworthy (although some know they aren't), we like also to think that others are too, but deep down we know ...

The Life Doctor: BOREDOM

The Life Doctor: BOREDOM: Boredom is something we are all prone to from time to time, it's a mental thing, it's where we can't apportion our thoughts and...

The Life Doctor: NO REPLY

The Life Doctor: NO REPLY: It's got to be said, that the more companies invest in front line personnel the more clients seem to get frustrated by the way they are...

The Life Doctor: OVERCOME - IT'S ALL POSSIBLE

The Life Doctor: OVERCOME - IT'S ALL POSSIBLE: There is many an obstacle that comes our way in life, even when things are going swimmingly well, sometimes out of the blue we get caught u...

The Life Doctor: WHEN FAILURE IS YOUR BEST FRIEND

The Life Doctor: WHEN FAILURE IS YOUR BEST FRIEND: For many people the word failure sends a shudder down their spine, it brings a cold and embarrassing chill to what they have to say. Yet fa...

The Life Doctor: WHEN IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER

The Life Doctor: WHEN IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER: The saying 'a little learning is a dangerous thing' can be for some almost fatal. Biologically we have almost identical systems but...

The Life Doctor: WHAT'S NORMAL

The Life Doctor: WHAT'S NORMAL: We all have views about what is normal and what isn’t and by and large we share many views concurrently on the same subject , we have ideas...

The Life Doctor: HOPELESSNESS

The Life Doctor: HOPELESSNESS: For many today there is a degree of hopelessness surrounding their thoughts, events at large seem almost too much for them to mentally cope...

The Life Doctor: THE GUILT OF SELF DENIAL

The Life Doctor: THE GUILT OF SELF DENIAL: Habits can be formed at any level, even daily routines can in some cases become habitual and when circumstances dictate change it throws th...

The Life Doctor: THE POWER OF HOPE

The Life Doctor: THE POWER OF HOPE: Hope is an essential aspect of our lives, it’s not some woolly thought that we have that we win the lottery or it stays fine for the bar-b-q...

The Life Doctor: THE WILL TO LIVE

The Life Doctor: THE WILL TO LIVE: It’s not that one has the will not to live but the thought that goes through the mind is literally “The Will To Live” life can at times see...

The Life Doctor: THE ELASTIC EFFECT

The Life Doctor: THE ELASTIC EFFECT: Control, control, control, control, governments like control, local councils like to control, companies like to control, lawyers love contr...

The Life Doctor: SOCIAL WANNABIES

The Life Doctor: SOCIAL WANNABIES: There is almost an epidemic of social websites emerging covering just about every aspect of social activity graded by sex, age, social leve...

The Life Doctor: HOPELESSNESS

The Life Doctor: HOPELESSNESS: For many today there is a degree of hopelessness surrounding their thoughts, events at large seem almost too much for them to mentally cope...

The Life Doctor: NO REPLY

The Life Doctor: NO REPLY: It's got to be said, that the more companies invest in front line personnel the more clients seem to get frustrated by the way they are...

The Life Doctor: THE GOD THREAT

The Life Doctor: THE GOD THREAT: It’s all coming to the boil, religions are clambering for credibility, what does each and every God do for their followers, the answer is n...

The Life Doctor: PARASITIC MINDS

The Life Doctor: PARASITIC MINDS: It's become almost blase today to broadcast the negative side of life, like most religions fear breeds an almost destined and clandesti...

The Life Doctor: BOREDOM

The Life Doctor: BOREDOM: Boredom is something we are all prone to from time to time, it's a mental thing, it's where we can't apportion our thoughts and...

The Life Doctor: THE POWER OF REAL HOPE

The Life Doctor: THE POWER OF REAL HOPE: We all have degrees of hope within us, it doesn't matter what language we speak either, we still have phrases such as "I hope this...

The Life Doctor: GETTING WHAT YOU DESERVE

The Life Doctor: GETTING WHAT YOU DESERVE: We all think we deserve the best and why not, we put effort into something and we expect there to be some return for that effort and expend...

The Life Doctor: MAKING IT HAPPEN

The Life Doctor: MAKING IT HAPPEN: Regardless of what we aspire to, or how we would "ideally" like life to be we have to face up to the fact that whatever is in fro...

The Life Doctor: LIFE IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK

The Life Doctor: LIFE IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK: Let's get it clear from the start, something that most people know but a few seem to have problems with, "Life does not revolve ar...

The Life Doctor: LIFE IN THE BOX

The Life Doctor: LIFE IN THE BOX: There's a lot of hype about thought and people who in theory anyway are "outside of the box" when it comes to their perceptio...

The Life Doctor: TRUST

The Life Doctor: TRUST: We like to think we are trustworthy (although some know they aren't), we like also to think that others are too, but deep down we know ...

The Life Doctor: GIVING LIFE A CHANCE

The Life Doctor: GIVING LIFE A CHANCE: It's easy to forget or overlook the good and pleasant times of the past, negativity has an edge especially if we are disposed to a nega...

The Life Doctor: OUR HIGHER SELF

The Life Doctor: OUR HIGHER SELF: We all have a "higher self" both within us and without us, whether we utilise any of it is down to us, many people don't util...

The Life Doctor: WHO?

The Life Doctor: WHO?: It's strange when we hear friends, family, work colleagues etc reciting script they've heard from someone else or even worse a stra...

The Life Doctor: TAKING OWNERSHIP

The Life Doctor: TAKING OWNERSHIP: It's important that we take ownership in what we do and not cower down to the trivialities of others thoughts and feelings, or be a par...

The Life Doctor: THE DARK PLACES - QUANTUM THOUGHT

The Life Doctor: THE DARK PLACES - QUANTUM THOUGHT: There's a greatness in collective thought, but at the same time it all depends upon what the thought is, lemmings commit suicide collec...

The Life Doctor: INTERSTITIAL THOUGHTS

The Life Doctor: INTERSTITIAL THOUGHTS: What makes our world go around is how we view it, it has to be as we are the only ones who respond to life from our perspective. Even if we...

The Life Doctor: THE VULNERABILITY GAME

The Life Doctor: THE VULNERABILITY GAME: Do you feel that you are in charge of your life or that you are a pawn within it, and that it's basically a hopeless mess or you have t...

The Life Doctor: THE ENERGY AROUND US

The Life Doctor: THE ENERGY AROUND US: There's no secret that around us is energy, whether it's from nature itself or radioactive activity in the minerals around us, ther...

The Life Doctor: WHEN LIFE HURTS

The Life Doctor: WHEN LIFE HURTS: At times when it's almost too much to bare and the thought of crying starts to enter the mind as a comforting option, even if only for ...

The Life Doctor: YOU DON'T NEED PERMISSION

The Life Doctor: YOU DON'T NEED PERMISSION: It's funny how when we grow up we are taught, or at least most of us to be respectful to others and others property, it's something...

The Life Doctor: JUDGMENTAL ATTITUDES

The Life Doctor: JUDGMENTAL ATTITUDES: We see today on television and read in the press reports from all over the world on situations that are taking place, we even see close to ...

The Life Doctor: THE MIND GREMLINS

The Life Doctor: THE MIND GREMLINS: And just when everything was going well someone dropped a spanner in the works, our organised and adjusted life is thrown out of kilter and ...

The Life Doctor: THE CHAMELEON EFFECT

The Life Doctor: THE CHAMELEON EFFECT: Love is something we all want to feel, regardless of where it comes from, it's even better if it comes from someone who is significant ...

The Life Doctor: THE BITTER PILL

The Life Doctor: THE BITTER PILL: We all at times in our life have to take stock of who we are, where we are and what we are, and to our dismay our perceptions of all those ...

The Life Doctor: BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

The Life Doctor: BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE: Are you one of the so called "beautiful people" or are you just you, and if you are just you, what are you, are you beautiful or ...

The Life Doctor: SOCIOPATHS

The Life Doctor: SOCIOPATHS: Sociopaths make up about 4% of the population, they are people who have no or little emotion as opposed to fanatics who often have an overz...

The Life Doctor: NEGATIVE EMOTIONS

The Life Doctor: NEGATIVE EMOTIONS: Our equilibrium in life is a balance between how we think and what's going on around us, it's how we assimilate it all and how we l...

The Life Doctor: SELF MOTIVATION

The Life Doctor: SELF MOTIVATION: Without motivation we do very little in life, we end up lifeless, listless, dull, boring and everything we do has that edge of negativity, &...

The Life Doctor: ADDICTED TO NEGATIVITY

The Life Doctor: ADDICTED TO NEGATIVITY: How many times have we heard other people say "we always do it like this", or "it's my culture" or "it's m...

The Life Doctor: BEING SORRY

The Life Doctor: BEING SORRY: We are all sorry about something sometime, possibly even as often as in our daily environment, but being sorry isn't just a feeling bas...

The Life Doctor: A DYING ROMANCE

The Life Doctor: A DYING ROMANCE: It's come to this, the end is in sight yet you just don't want to let go for fear of the nothingness and the void, and the emotiona...

The Life Doctor: INNER FULFILLMENT

The Life Doctor: INNER FULFILLMENT: It's important that we get some inner fulfilment in life otherwise we suffer a degree of deprivation and loss, we get that endless feel...

The Life Doctor: HOPE

The Life Doctor: HOPE: Without hope in our lives no matter how distant it appears we have nothing to motivate us or seek a pathway forward, without hope we are aim...

The Life Doctor: REVENGE

The Life Doctor: REVENGE: There's a lot written about revenge, the bitter sweet deed of getting "one's own back" or having some deliberate recompens...

The Life Doctor: THE MERIT OF GRATITUDE

The Life Doctor: THE MERIT OF GRATITUDE: It seems at times that society as a whole is in for whatever it can get at whatever cost, the press and the media provide no comfort whatsoe...

The Life Doctor: SPYING

The Life Doctor: SPYING: We are all familiar with the TV films and movies built around spying, espionage, corruption, deceit, subversion, bribery, etc, it all goes h...

The Life Doctor: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

The Life Doctor: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: The difference between machines and humanity is the emotional aspect of thought, it's how we assimilate actions or deeds based upon our...

The Life Doctor: HYPOCRISY

The Life Doctor: HYPOCRISY: It's amazing and also somewhat ironic that certain areas of life are riddled with hypocrisy, not that hypocrisy is confined to any one p...

The Life Doctor: PEACE

The Life Doctor: PEACE: Peace is one of the most valuable commodities that's available to us today, and it doesn't mean being on an island in the middle of ...

The Life Doctor: CULTURAL DEATH

The Life Doctor: CULTURAL DEATH: It's nice to feel wanted, to feel loved, to feel you have a place in life and that you have some degree of heritage, because without the...

The Life Doctor: SMILING

The Life Doctor: SMILING: One of the most pleasing aspects of human interchange in the human condition is the smile, it needs no rehearsing, no prompting, no translat...

The Life Doctor: SATIRE

The Life Doctor: SATIRE: Satire is as old as the hills, in Western culture it's accepted as a form of expression by anyone who has a point to make about anything...

The Life Doctor: RULING YOUR OWN LIFE

The Life Doctor: RULING YOUR OWN LIFE: Drugs, sex, booze, food, speeding, smoking, stupidity, lies, deceit, greed, etc, etc, all things which are under our control, all things we ...

The Life Doctor: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO

The Life Doctor: WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO: One of the biggest obstacles in our lives is ourselves, it's ourselves we have to convince that we need to do something then it's o...

The Life Doctor: EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL

The Life Doctor: EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL: Emotional Blackmail is one of the lowest traits that any human being can delve to, to inflict pain by almost blackmail based upon emotional ...

The Life Doctor: SPIRITUALITY

The Life Doctor: SPIRITUALITY: There's so much written about "Spirituality" from people who haven't a clue, there's so much clap trap embedded in dog...

The Life Doctor: RESPECT

The Life Doctor: RESPECT: Respect is one of those homogeneous words it incorporates a lot of levels and different strata points, it's both subjective and objectiv...

The Life Doctor: THE ART OF UNDERSTANDING

The Life Doctor: THE ART OF UNDERSTANDING: There is an art to understanding, it doesn't matter who you are, what you are, your level of intelligence, whatever, we all like to be ...

The Life Doctor: MENTAL HEALTH, STABILITY & HAPPINESS

The Life Doctor: MENTAL HEALTH, STABILITY & HAPPINESS: It's almost at epidemic proportions and much of it is self afflicted, it's a structured aspect of humanity that if lost will cause ...

The Life Doctor: BE PREPARED TO BE WRONG

The Life Doctor: BE PREPARED TO BE WRONG: Children are in many ways quite virtuous in that they "have a go"at what they do or say, they don't know any other, and we se...

The Life Doctor: YOUR LIFE - YOUR CHOICE - YOUR FUTURE

The Life Doctor: YOUR LIFE - YOUR CHOICE - YOUR FUTURE: With upheavals in the Middle East and millions of Arabs seeking freedom, whatever that is for them, so used to being governed and working a...

The Life Doctor: WHO ARE YOU ?

The Life Doctor: WHO ARE YOU ?: If someone put the question to you, "Who Are You?" how would you answer, possibly like many people with that instant response of ...

The Life Doctor: THE RITUAL OF LIFE

The Life Doctor: THE RITUAL OF LIFE: Asking people as to whether they are happy or not always brings a slow response followed by a somewhat brief yet quick analysis based upon ...

The Life Doctor: IDIOTS EMPLOYING IDIOTS

The Life Doctor: IDIOTS EMPLOYING IDIOTS: The amount of creative intelligence that's allowed to be wasted, discarded, overlooked because the "gatekeepers" or those in ...

The Life Doctor: TELLING THOSE AROUND YOU HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU...

The Life Doctor: TELLING THOSE AROUND YOU HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU...: We can all be wise after the event, many are experts in hindsight and still get it wrong, we can however at times be full of regret and rem...

The Life Doctor: LIFE'S EDUCATED PARROTS

The Life Doctor: LIFE'S EDUCATED PARROTS: Education and knowledge are one thing, putting it all together in a coherent way is another. We can obtain knowledge in the form of a book o...

The Life Doctor: AFFECTION

The Life Doctor: AFFECTION: It's just so good to receive affection, it feels just great to be greeted and spoken to by people who care and respect us for who we ar...

The Life Doctor: THE END OF THE RIDE

The Life Doctor: THE END OF THE RIDE: How many people are ever prepared for the inevitable or whatever crosses their pathway without prior warning? We are all different and cope...

The Life Doctor: TAKING OWNERSHIP

The Life Doctor: TAKING OWNERSHIP: Many people in life are experiencing problems with just living throughout each day, they seemingly come up against bad service, problems wi...

The Life Doctor: THE ACT OF OBSERVATION AND UNDERSTANDING

The Life Doctor: THE ACT OF OBSERVATION AND UNDERSTANDING: Our degrees of observance varies enormously, it depends upon our level of intelligence, our thought process, our attitude towards life, who...

The Life Doctor: KINDNESS

The Life Doctor: KINDNESS: We all appreciate degrees of kindness, we all like to think that we are kind, but the cold truth is that many who would consider themselves...

The Life Doctor: ETERNAL HOPE

The Life Doctor: ETERNAL HOPE: Hope for most people is more than an essential aspect of life, it's something that's intrinsic towards who they are and what they w...

The Life Doctor: GETTING YOUR ACT TOGETHER

The Life Doctor: GETTING YOUR ACT TOGETHER: We all at times have deep aspirations and ideas that we would like to carry out, we also have "duties" too that we more or less m...

The Life Doctor: WHEN IT ALL GOES SO VERY WRONG

The Life Doctor: WHEN IT ALL GOES SO VERY WRONG: Life's funny really when you think about it, we are on planet Earth for a stretch of time, we don't know for how long nor do we know...

The Life Doctor: FINDING THE JOY

The Life Doctor: FINDING THE JOY: Happiness is one thing in life, love is another, both together are essential for if we lose either for any length of time we start to becom...

The Life Doctor: MORE ON LONELINESS

The Life Doctor: MORE ON LONELINESS: Loneliness is a creeping condition in that for many they just find that they feel all of a sudden isolated, lonely and at times very fragile...

The Life Doctor: THE NOW ASPECT OF TOMORROWS TECHNOLOGY

The Life Doctor: THE NOW ASPECT OF TOMORROWS TECHNOLOGY: We seem to get bombarded almost daily by new technology designed to make life easier, faster, more secure, more time saving, and more anyth...

The Life Doctor: POSTPONING HAPPINESS - YET AGAIN !!!

The Life Doctor: POSTPONING HAPPINESS - YET AGAIN !!!: It's amazing when one talks about happiness people seem to be almost animated in their gestures as if it's something alien and that...

The Life Doctor: MAKING IT HAPPEN

The Life Doctor: MAKING IT HAPPEN: We all want to see enterprise in our lives even the most dull and boring person of which there are quite a few around wants to have some de...

The Life Doctor: HAPPINESS EVERYDAY

The Life Doctor: HAPPINESS EVERYDAY: So you've read the title and you've already thought to yourself impossible, how can you be happy everyday without even giving that ...

The Life Doctor: ASKING THE QUESTIONS

The Life Doctor: ASKING THE QUESTIONS: Intelligence is not a precursor to success, neither is ignorance, you can be a world class brain box and have no common sense whatsoever or...

The Life Doctor: THE "NOW WHAT" FACTOR

The Life Doctor: THE "NOW WHAT" FACTOR: Many people come across the "Now What" factor in their lives because they are somewhat insular in their thoughts and the way they...

The Life Doctor: THE EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF DISAPPOINTMENT

The Life Doctor: THE EMOTIONAL ASPECTS OF DISAPPOINTMENT: The emotional aspects of disappointment can be almost crippling in that they can alter not only how we feel, which is usually low, but the ...

The Life Doctor: YOU ARE THE LIFE TAFFIC

The Life Doctor: YOU ARE THE LIFE TAFFIC: Are you one of those people who goes through life as if talking on a mobile phone, the conversational quality of talking on mobile devises ...

The Life Doctor: THE GOD DECEIVERS

The Life Doctor: THE GOD DECEIVERS: The turmoil of today's world is forever growing, the gap grows between those that believe and those that don't, and even those that...

The Life Doctor: WHEN LIFE STARTS TO HURT

The Life Doctor: WHEN LIFE STARTS TO HURT: At times in life many arrive at what is virtually a Life Impasse in that all of a sudden everything appears to come to a grinding halt. The...

The Life Doctor: VICTIM OR VICTOR?

The Life Doctor: VICTIM OR VICTOR?: In today’s world we are bombarded by a whole manner of people who seem to take it upon themselves to be the bastions of our society and tel...

The Life Doctor: ADDED PERSONALITY - THE MAGIC INGREDIENT

The Life Doctor: ADDED PERSONALITY - THE MAGIC INGREDIENT: Whatever we do in life or whatever someone else does in life it has a bit of us or them in it, it has to have otherwise it would have been ...

The Life Doctor: MOOD RELATIVITY

The Life Doctor: MOOD RELATIVITY: Whatever our character, or whatever our attitude is it's all manifested from within. The stories of "life made me like this" ...

The Life Doctor: TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF

The Life Doctor: TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF: There are so many books written today about Self Help, written by those on therapy (all about life and failure), Transcendental Meditation,...

The Life Doctor: WHERE DOES LOVE LIVE

The Life Doctor: WHERE DOES LOVE LIVE: Life is a journey, not the “New Age” variety of “well it happens for a reason” or any of that mindless rubbish although some of our actions ...

The Life Doctor: THE TIPPING POINT

The Life Doctor: THE TIPPING POINT: We all go through phases of one sort or another, or possibly a fad too, but whatever it is, we go through them, some good some not so good ...

The Life Doctor: MULTIPLE IDENTITY

The Life Doctor: MULTIPLE IDENTITY: Yes we all have multiple identities and no we are not psychotic or schizophrenic, every day we utilise who we are and our knowledge to appe...

The Life Doctor: WRESTLING WITH SELF ESTEEM

The Life Doctor: WRESTLING WITH SELF ESTEEM: As a society today one wonders at times if we have progressed mentally or it's just the physical things around us that have gotten more...

The Life Doctor: ORDER OF CHAOS (Ordo Ab Chao)

The Life Doctor: ORDER OF CHAOS (Ordo Ab Chao): From the Chaos Theory we get the “Butterfly Effect”, then we get ‘sensitive dependence’ whereby both describe the changes that take place i...

The Life Doctor: SORRY & THANK YOU

The Life Doctor: SORRY & THANK YOU: Two very powerful words that express so much about life, the person we are, our understanding of life and others, the etiquette of getting ...

The Life Doctor: BEING BROKEN HEARTED

The Life Doctor: BEING BROKEN HEARTED: It’s not the nicest of things to happen, it blows our mind like a mini atom bomb going off inside of us, triggering all of our feelings and...

The Life Doctor: EMPATHY STRUCTURES

The Life Doctor: EMPATHY STRUCTURES: In order to get along in life we need to have an empathy with it otherwise we either just play “lip service” to what we are doing or go thr...

The Life Doctor: WHAT'S NORMAL

The Life Doctor: WHAT'S NORMAL: We all have views about what is normal and what isn’t and by and large we share many views concurrently on the same subject , we have ideas...

The Life Doctor: BURNING THE ILLUSION

The Life Doctor: BURNING THE ILLUSION: Much of our life is played out by what we know and how we live with that knowledge, how we enjoy our lives is something down to us and our ...

The Life Doctor: THE LOVE SWINGOMETER

The Life Doctor: THE LOVE SWINGOMETER: The basis of all my writings is about the foundation of society and that is “love”, for without love we are but drones or robots just living...

The Life Doctor: THE POWER OF HOPE

The Life Doctor: THE POWER OF HOPE: Hope is an essential aspect of our lives, it’s not some woolly thought that we have that we win the lottery or it stays fine for the bar-b-q...

The Life Doctor: THE WILL TO LIVE

The Life Doctor: THE WILL TO LIVE: It’s not that one has the will not to live but the thought that goes through the mind is literally “The Will To Live” life can at times see...

The Life Doctor: I'M ALL ALONE

The Life Doctor: I'M ALL ALONE: There’s no big secret that some people are predominantly all alone just about all the time, however we can all be “all alone” at certain ti...

The Life Doctor: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS

The Life Doctor: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS: Do you go around with that slightly vacant expression, not quite squinting but that slightly glazed look as if in deep thought, because if ...

The Life Doctor: THE ELASTIC EFFECT

The Life Doctor: THE ELASTIC EFFECT: Control, control, control, control, governments like control, local councils like to control, companies like to control, lawyers love contr...

The Life Doctor: SOCIAL WANNABIES

The Life Doctor: SOCIAL WANNABIES: There is almost an epidemic of social websites emerging covering just about every aspect of social activity graded by sex, age, social leve...

The Life Doctor: HOPELESSNESS

The Life Doctor: HOPELESSNESS: For many today there is a degree of hopelessness surrounding their thoughts, events at large seem almost too much for them to mentally cope...

The Life Doctor: THE GUILT OF SELF DENIAL

The Life Doctor: THE GUILT OF SELF DENIAL: Habits can be formed at any level, even daily routines can in some cases become habitual and when circumstances dictate change it throws th...

The Life Doctor: MAKING IT HAPPEN

The Life Doctor: MAKING IT HAPPEN: Regardless of what we aspire to, or how we would "ideally" like life to be we have to face up to the fact that whatever is in fro...

The Life Doctor: NO REPLY

The Life Doctor: NO REPLY: It's got to be said, that the more companies invest in front line personnel the more clients seem to get frustrated by the way they are...

The Life Doctor: THE GOD THREAT

The Life Doctor: THE GOD THREAT: It’s all coming to the boil, religions are clambering for credibility, what does each and every God do for their followers, the answer is n...

The Life Doctor: PARASITIC MINDS

The Life Doctor: PARASITIC MINDS: It's become almost blase today to broadcast the negative side of life, like most religions fear breeds an almost destined and clandesti...