My good friend had the vicar round last night to arrange details for the Christening of his newborn girl. It got me wondering as to why we, by that I mean society, do these faith related offerings at certain times. I mean we all celebrate the birth of Jesus by joining in with Christmas. Now my unreligious friend was having a third christening. Do we do this to get our kids a place in heaven incase it exists? The bible makes it obvious that it's not as easy as that. But if we are hedging our bets then we should also join all Muslim religions and whatever else. But just involving ourselves with one religion we don't actually believe in seems at best disrespectful. Yet lots do it. I find it fascinating. I don't know what I believe. I tried to convey this via text to my friend but when I read it back it came across judgemental. So then I had to apologise because I may have seemed like I was pointing the finger. I wasn't, I know it's what we feel we should do.

As I sat on my sofa I heard a music start up which I took to be upstairs at first. It suddenly increased enough to sound like my neighbour. What made it strange was the song was 'the power of love' by Huey Lewis and the News. The 80's hit from Back to the Future. In other words not the song that you would blast out loud. Although this has been played loudly in the film American Psycho when Christian Bales character has a killing spree in his home. Anyway it became apparent that this song was a car stereo driving past my house and started to fade. It was a weird thirty seconds.