Positive Energy

Received a rather unsettling card in the post. The front depicts a large bunch of tulips in a vase and inside it reads 'Friends are like flowers they brighten up your day', a nice sentiment although not wholly true. A majority of my friendships from the past ended in disaster. One good friend stole my wife and another took on the guise of an internet lover to fraudulently relieve me of my savings. He still hasn't been sentenced. The card was sent by Ray, you may remember him as the close friend who smashed up my flat in a drunken rampage. Since successfully completing rehab he is training for some sort of life coach qualification. These days I try to avoid him whenever possible as he spends the entire time dissecting his own life or furrowing his brow for answers about mine. What should be a light hearted chat over herb tea usually turns into a a two hour discussion on the 'barriers we build in life' or some other twaddle. Anyway the card is an invite to a seminar Ray is holding called 'Release Positive Energy into YOUR life', I am reluctant to attend but feel obliged as it's Ray's first seminar and I should support him. The card suggests I wear comfy clothes as we will be doing some 'light movement' and bring a ten pound donation. I am hoping Ray will waive the fee as he still owes me a few hundred pounds to replace my smashed furniture and light fittings he ripped from the wall. Somehow I think he won't.