The Fox

By Mike Lees

Follow John, a family man, in his adventure into the Scottish Highlands to find answers to his increasing sense of loss in a world he feels is overtaking him and destroying the love he once had. Can John find his inner-self, contentment of the mind and body? Will the Fox be able to help him? And who is the Fox?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Lees Books
• Release date: Apr 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393417491

Mike Lees

From London, England, Mike lives in Switzerland. He enjoys the marvellous scenery and the multi-cultural community that country has to offer. That involves speaking at least two languages and dealing with the mosaic that Switzerland has become over the centuries. He is a Professional NLP counsellor and favours personal development in his life to guide him through the journey. Painting and writing have become an important vector for him to express his inner-self and share his experiences. As you know reviews are an important part of how an author gets known which in turn allows him to continue to write. Please consider leaving a review. Many thanks. Feel free to contact me: [e-mail]

Book preview

I first became aware that I had accepted, even from my youth, many false opinions for true, and that consequently what I afterwards based on such principles was highly doubtful: and from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions I had adopted, and of commencing anew the work of building from the foundation,...

Rene Descartes, French Philosopher

The rational mind is a humble servant. The intuitive mind, the faithful gift. We have created a society that honours the servant and forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

Fox, Foxes, Wild Fox, Canine, Canid, Sly As A Fox

Chapter 1

Cogito Ergo Sum (I think, hence I am)

John felt alien. Mayhem was all around him as he sat on the sofa watching his two children, TV blasting out nonsense and his wife on the phone to one of her friends, talking loudly, compound nonsense. Lost. No past and no future and the present? Well, he looked around him again, no help there. Why exist? Why beget children, why fall in love? What advancement is there in occupying himself with such fruitless, never-ending pursuits? Why? Why? Why go to work, earn money to let it fall into that bottomless pit called life? A life without end, without an aim except to perennate the species. A knot curled up in his stomach, bile rising, a mental quiver weighing down his existence. He entered the kitchen, to make a coffee, something to do, to bide his time, to distract him. It was not helping though. Whilst waiting for the water to boil, he stared at the boiler slowly changing the molecules in the water to boiling point; his mobile rang, drawing him from his reverie. He drew it out of his back pocket, Dan, ok.

Dan? Hi,

Hey John, Gary and I are going down Snob’s, wanna come?

A welcome distraction. Yeah, what time?

Now, I’m meeting him there straight away.

Ok, see you later, bye.

John closed his phone and interrupted the boiler, glad to wield his power of decision over it. I can stop the boiling water or not, I decide, I have that power. It made him chuckle internally. Pathetic,