Life is out there to be lived. If you can be bothered, look up and read Theodore Roosevelt's famous speech, The strenuous life. It's a pearler. You will not regret it.

One problem we face in living our lives to the fullest is the constant barrage from a managerial class whose confidence is, I think, seriously misplaced.

These people like nothing more than to tell others what's best for them. They after all have "an education ". But it's from a university, and not from life. A university education is a good thing if you recognise its limits.

All too often we see, hear and read commentators, our would-be-if-they-could-be life tutors, mouthing off about stuff way beyond the limits of their formal education. They use the fact of having a degree to establish their credibility and then practise expertise creep.

The consequence of this barrage of tut-tutting and advice, coupled with ridiculously excessive regulation is the man in the street is more likely to ask what he can do rather than to tell you what he wants to do or worse, just plod on with life as though opportunities just aren't there. People are living lives where they see limitations rather than opportunities, restrictions rather than freedom.

You have to wonder if these managerial know-alls ever read the United States Declaration of Independence and if they did what meaning they attribute to "all men are created equal".

Clearly it doesn't mean we are all the same. We've all got varying amounts of different skills and attributes. In science, art, music, oratory, organisation,........

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