This has not been a happy year, understatement. There have been precious few of those in recent times. Since the turn of the 2000 there has been little improvement in the world. We may have less wars and our standard of living improved, perhaps we are paying more attention to the environment, maybe more people are better off? It sure don’t seem like it! I feel the world has became a sadder place and that the general mood throughout the world if one of pessimism. At present it is easy to be swayed that way, as the world goes through this collective pain! Nevertheless looking back I have written far far more often about the things that are wring than right. One might argue that moaning, complaining and criticism is easier than praise and optimism. Believe me I do look for the good things to write about but there are precious few things to be optimistic about? Oddly as I write this I am listening to William Shatner's (Yes Captain Kirk) Version of Let’s Work Together originally done by Canned Heat, for those of you whose memory goes back that far! And there in a nutshell is the nub of the worlds problems, we seem less likely to want to work together. The UK voted narrowly to leave the EU. Trump has taken the US our of all sort of agreements and treaties. Russia wants to interfere in the West to de-stabilise us. China imposes new laws on Hong Kong when they had signed a long term agreement to leave the colony to it’s own laws. India and China are clashing. Indian and Pakistan still clash. South America has leaders who are eroding hard fought freedoms. East European countries have a surge of far right politics. Rights are being eroding all over the world. Hard won equality such as LBGT are being rolled back in many countries. There are still many places in the world where both they and women still have no real rights and are positively persecuted.
You cannot escape equality for all it will come, when who knows, it is only fear and the lust for power that prevents it’s progress. there are to many millions of people who views are polarised and they have too much space to air their views and corrupt others!
There thats off my chest!!!!!
My writers club subject for the next meeting is The Long Wait/Weight
This is my short piece on The Long Wait
At last the long wait for Love was over.
“Mr Love where have you been we’ve waited for ages”
“Sorry train delayed at Chipping Norton”
thank you
Stay well
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