What is it about Top Gun, I don’t get it? I don’t get why Tom cruise is so popular?
I can’t understand why I have not had my £150 refund on council tax? I don’t need it but it has become a matter of principal!
I still can’t understand why we voted to leave the EU?
I don’t get how we were duped by Boris and voted his party in power?
Those are just a minuscule sample of all the things I don’t understand and as I get older I seem to understand less and less and yet more at the same time! For instance I do get gun culture in the USA but at the same time I fail to understand why? We live in a world of so much contradiction, it is a wonder that any of us can fathom anything? For most of us living our lives the best way we can, it is difficult to see all the troubles in the world, scarred by religious belief, politics, power hungry men, wealth and privilege and the damage we have done to our Earth causing endless destruction and death!
This week in which we celebrate the 70 years of our sovereign and those who wish to enjoy the festivities, it is hard to reflect on a world in which there seemed so much hope when I was young and now, as I approach my 70th birthday all that optimism fro a bright future has gone up in smoke. Yes we have made progress, yes things improved, we are more accepting of many things and of course our technological and medical advances have been staggering. Our standard of living in the West has generally improved and perhaps this is just one of those short term blips that often happen before the next leap forward gathers pace?
I am still an optimist, I still believe we can live in peace and stop killing each other and put things right?
Stays well
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