Self Matters

I was reading a book the weekend called 'Self Matters' by Dr Phil McGraw, in my quest to examine, understand and change patterns that are not working for me in my life. I was struck by his idea that we have 10 defining moments in our lives which shape our self-concept to the present day, good or bad.
I wonder therefore, where my preoccupation with bats comes from and where this fits in and what the defining moment was, 'cause one of the things I do to amuse myself before work in the morning is do a bit of writing from my imaginary batcave and I thought I would share my latest....

'Barrybat has been stumbling around pissed again. Apparently he has set up an illegal batstill making batbooze called 'message in a bottle' the message being don't drink alcohol while hanging upside down, you lose most of it.
His secret ingredient is gloworm, it is a bit like tequila but glows in the dark and made from fruit, with a bit of batiguana in (the aroma when it is brewing is interesting). Anyway he has got a production line going. Some of the younger bats are secretly siphoning it off while Barry is sleeping it off, and taking it to their batroosts, so they can hang around on bat corners, while trying to look cool and eye up the batbabes.
Norman Bat aka 'stormin Norman' called so because of his famous bat-escapades, that is, swinging from ivy to ivy singing 'I could have flapped all night, I could have flapped all night and still come back for more' (splat..Norman has just misjudged a loop the loop and landed head first in a pile of bat poo) has decided to use 'message in a bottle' to sabotage the visiting bat flight team. They are two days away from a synchronised flight team display competition. Norman has put together an impressive display, whereby his formation 'Bewdley Bats' have been practising a hovering batsymbol with 40 other bats, but the 'Pershore Pipistrells' have been rumoured to have created a new unheard of, never seen before display, which has been kept under raps and absolutely secret.....