I wrote what I felt was a pretty worthy leaving tribute email about a colleague recently. He's leaving us after making a fundamental success of our company. Firstly starting it, then being a generally good dude and I guess sometimes you need to say what you think is right, else whats the point really. Also, I think is big and human to say you have made a difference, and you've accomplished things and obviously, the most important thing is to say thanks...

Obviously, the creative juices were flowing freely...

Coming across and uncovering something truly magnificent, is akin perhaps to finding and seeing an incredibly intense bright glowing sphere, nestled quietly all alone in a dark forest say.

Initially, it surprises you; you’re very excited, then very anxious, then very, very cautious. Cautious because it’s bigger than you are, it’s more exceptional than you are, it’s newer than you are and you’ve never seen anything like it before and you don’t know how it works and what it does.

I imagine, you might sit there for a while just watching it, amazed by it, excited trying to make sense of it.

Lurking very cautiously (as I have), in the midst of things that are bigger than me, you tend to have an incredibly opportunity to observe and appreciate a fair few many things. The side effect of this is that if you tend to pay attention, you tend to observe your own weaknesses and flaws, from others that don’t have them. Initially, you tend to feel very alone, very normal and then you soon realise how you might learn from this, then how beneficial such a situation is and then how it might work for you, then how you could become better and stronger and you get real excited. So you watch and pay attention, take notes and learn. I guess, in the same way you might do if you came across an exceptional glowing sphere in a dark forest.

So thanks Paul - It’s been a privilege lurking behind, in your light, all this time.

And with regards to the future, sometimes you need to be wondering alone through dark forests to find new things that are exceptional.

I wish you the best during your walks

Thats pretty much it.