Inside the Medium by Cruickshank Kelvin

Author:Cruickshank, Kelvin [Cruickshank, Kelvin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781742539089
Publisher: Penguin New Zealand
Published: 2013-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

Like father, like son

People often ask if I can sense stuff and the answer is sometimes. I’m good at reading people’s emotions; I seem to pick up very easily on how others are feeling, even if they are trying to hide those feelings. I pick up on these emotions when I hug people. I’m big on hugging, it’s my thing. I’ve always done it, even when I don’t know someone from a bar of soap, it’s just me. If it wasn’t for the fact that I go around hugging people, I wouldn’t have a lot of the friends I have now. It’s a good way of getting to know people!

When I hug someone I pick up on their energy and can sense how they are feeling. They may be acting happy and as if everything is okay with them, but if they are feeling run down or terrible I will instantly know. Even if I am doing my best not to do it, it happens anyway. I’ve never thought twice about it, it’s just how I am.

This has happened with one of my mates – he seemed to be okay but the minute I hugged him I knew he hated life and didn’t want to be in the world any more. Yet you wouldn’t have known that just to look at him.

Because I pick up on whether people are feeling a bit down I often ask others if they are all right. Some of my mates find it annoying because I’m always asking but I can’t help it. I’ll just get this feeling about someone and I have to ask. When I was working on an orchard, I’d be on the other side of the property to one of my colleagues, and I’d have to ask, ‘Bro, are you all right?’ I would have just had a feeling.

There have been times in the past where sensing people’s problems and trying to fix them has got me in trouble. My dad thinks it’s because I’m trying to own their problems, but that’s not it, it’s because I just want to help. That is the example he has set – you should do whatever it takes to help people if you can.

But, as he often tells me, you can’t help those who don’t want to help themselves. I’ve had to learn the hard way that you can’t sort out other people’s problems for them – I’ve tried and it hasn’t gone down very well. As Kelvin says, I can support my mates and give them my opinion, but I have to let people fix things themselves. It has been a hard lesson to learn but, like Kelvin has told me, now that I’ve learned it I will recognise this lesson from now on. We’re here to learn and it doesn’t matter if you are 18 or 80, you’re always learning something.

My dad and I have the usual run-ins. I know that is just part of life. Kelvin is not just a dad to me, he’s my best friend.

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