StringJunky

I agree, what about ostensibly 'white' people with a high percentage of Afro-Caribbean roots; what 'race' do they fall under?

In addition to what to what Sirona says, the one thing you can't hide, when it is done in the name of vanity, is the effects of time. I think, to try to do so will only leave you with a bigger mess to deal with in the end plus the likely adverse psychological effects of eventually realising the sheer futility of executing such an exercise for that reason, after the fact. Enjoy what you have whilst you have it. As one quality fades others will have matured to take its place.

I do miss being a child; everything so cut and dried and black and white

We are one race; the human race.

Wot E Sed.

You can't predict the future but should you risk waiting for that desire to arrive or should you go and look for it? "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun" Time - Pink Floyd.

For you Some like predictability and some like to take a chance and see what turns up; neither are wrong.

It is the same. They have the same problem. It's all wrong; they are educating people not making a product.

No. He will lead from the back. "Forward!" He cried, from the rear, as the front rank died. - P. Floyd

Absolutely. They are victims of the target-driven policies that are prevalent nowadays in professional life; it is here anyway. The consequence of this policy is that the bar is set very low as to what constitutes 'success'. I am one of their real success stories (free for 14 years) but I went into rehab voluntarily and wasn't compelled to. The two years I was with them and the fact I went to them on my own initiative allowed me access to the facts surrounding the rehabilitation process. It really works, using CBT, but only if you want to be helped.

I forget, we are in different countries. There is a much more proactive program of rehab here in the UK for prisoners; they are way too soft. Here, they often get a choice of going to prison, or early release if already inside, if they join a monitored rehab program. They reoffend as soon as they are out and the social workers don't put them back inside because it makes them look incompetent and their statistics poor.

If you define rehabilitation as giving up drugs for a good length of time (years), or for good, the rate is likely extremely low. In my city, according the local social services substance misuse team, it is less than 1% for those mandatorily coerced into their care. It's a joke really. Rehab can only come from within. I don't know what the answer is.

OK. Touche.

If you want to get totally Buddhist. If you want to be a lion don't let me stop you. You are the only judge of yourself that matters.

OK. What about just having an outlet pipe just above the surface that goes back into the supply- recirculate it.?

I misinterpreted what you said as something you felt was a negative in your life. There is much to be said for being mindfully passive and just let it all pass through you. It's all about achieving a manageable balance between all states which, I suppose, is what contentment is; balance or equilibrium.

That's why mentioned aeration.

Show what you know so far.

Would continuously aerating the reservoir(s) help?