Sunday morning here in Shropshire, the street outside in the small Town I live in is deathly quiet. It's something I don't often get to see as I am usually long gone to work or some other "pressing" task that requires my undivided attention immediately. Lay here in bed with my laptop on my knees I find myself wondering just why we have to do so many things in life at such break neck speeds?.
We have targets for everything, be it patients in the hospitals or children in our schools, we find ourselves at the mercy of schedules that must be met. But, just why do we do this? Does it enrich our lives to be striving for targets that are invariably never met thus provoking in depth searches for the reasons why?, I seriously doubt it. I think our main problems today arise from wanting more and more and expecting it. Then when we get disappointed we start searching for answers, the truth is life is full of disappointments, tragedy, fun, love, you name it it's in there and because we are so used to a "pill" for everything it comes as a harsh reality when one is not available. Working to schedules is in reality a necessary evil, without at least the basic of targets we would never get anything completed but my interest here is why we have to have so many committee's and sub-committee's to look over us while we do it, surely if a target is not met the person involved can work out what went wrong and why?.. or perhaps big brother really is trying to make us all perfect !.
Yet again this Sunday the papers lead with a public figure facing charges for heinous crimes that were supposedly committed some while ago. Of late so many of our "heroes" of television and the like have been exposed as underage child abusers and sex pests it's little wonder we as a nation are becoming less and less trusting of what we are told by such 'icons', too often pleas of innocence outside a courtroom are followed a few months later by a full confession or at least partial charges being admitted and it's beginning to shock us less and less.
I have to admit, I find the whole celebrity thing astonishing. I can never see what gives a person who acts or plays a sport well for instance the right to preach to us all about their views, like their profession gives them a wisdom beyond their years?. The truth is celebrity status means you get your voice heard and as we are seeing at the moment even the true icons are sometimes nothing but dirty old men or perverts, thus underlining my astonishment at the air time these people get preaching to us the rights and wrongs of living our own lives, while they 'bite' fellow competitors, take advantage of youngsters supposedly in their care or just down right lie, they are the worst of the worst as far as role models are concerned, the fact most personalities are usually two different people surely means they would be more in line for counselling than the rest of the whole population put together, let alone be allowed airtime to give us advice on how to be the perfect human being.
This week has been quite tough for me, we have a new puppy 12 weeks old and full of life, she is also it seems full of poo. This latter item has been at the forefront of my daily early morning chores, even with newspaper down in her cage she sleeps in at night it has been a most wretched of tasks to carry out. The upshot of all this is I have had no breakfast all week, just a quick cup of coffee and out through the door after the 'mopping up' exercise has been completed. I think for someone who is mechanically minded the sights and smells of a puppy are all a little too overwhelming, we are a tough breed but the smells we are used to are very much softer oil based and as such this new task is wholly unpalatable to our sense of smell.
Anyway, I hope that with some extra training and guidance it will be just a minor distraction from the actual ownership of a wonderful Border collie pup who is as cheeky as it's owner albeit the owner is slightly better house trained!.
One off-shoot of all this is that i have lost weight... not a diet plan i am about to launch on YouTube or make into a DvD just yet, but hell if it works for now i can live with it !.
I wish you all a great week ahead and enjoy the forecasted 'sunny' Bank holiday' !
We have targets for everything, be it patients in the hospitals or children in our schools, we find ourselves at the mercy of schedules that must be met. But, just why do we do this? Does it enrich our lives to be striving for targets that are invariably never met thus provoking in depth searches for the reasons why?, I seriously doubt it. I think our main problems today arise from wanting more and more and expecting it. Then when we get disappointed we start searching for answers, the truth is life is full of disappointments, tragedy, fun, love, you name it it's in there and because we are so used to a "pill" for everything it comes as a harsh reality when one is not available. Working to schedules is in reality a necessary evil, without at least the basic of targets we would never get anything completed but my interest here is why we have to have so many committee's and sub-committee's to look over us while we do it, surely if a target is not met the person involved can work out what went wrong and why?.. or perhaps big brother really is trying to make us all perfect !.
Yet again this Sunday the papers lead with a public figure facing charges for heinous crimes that were supposedly committed some while ago. Of late so many of our "heroes" of television and the like have been exposed as underage child abusers and sex pests it's little wonder we as a nation are becoming less and less trusting of what we are told by such 'icons', too often pleas of innocence outside a courtroom are followed a few months later by a full confession or at least partial charges being admitted and it's beginning to shock us less and less.
I have to admit, I find the whole celebrity thing astonishing. I can never see what gives a person who acts or plays a sport well for instance the right to preach to us all about their views, like their profession gives them a wisdom beyond their years?. The truth is celebrity status means you get your voice heard and as we are seeing at the moment even the true icons are sometimes nothing but dirty old men or perverts, thus underlining my astonishment at the air time these people get preaching to us the rights and wrongs of living our own lives, while they 'bite' fellow competitors, take advantage of youngsters supposedly in their care or just down right lie, they are the worst of the worst as far as role models are concerned, the fact most personalities are usually two different people surely means they would be more in line for counselling than the rest of the whole population put together, let alone be allowed airtime to give us advice on how to be the perfect human being.
This week has been quite tough for me, we have a new puppy 12 weeks old and full of life, she is also it seems full of poo. This latter item has been at the forefront of my daily early morning chores, even with newspaper down in her cage she sleeps in at night it has been a most wretched of tasks to carry out. The upshot of all this is I have had no breakfast all week, just a quick cup of coffee and out through the door after the 'mopping up' exercise has been completed. I think for someone who is mechanically minded the sights and smells of a puppy are all a little too overwhelming, we are a tough breed but the smells we are used to are very much softer oil based and as such this new task is wholly unpalatable to our sense of smell.
Anyway, I hope that with some extra training and guidance it will be just a minor distraction from the actual ownership of a wonderful Border collie pup who is as cheeky as it's owner albeit the owner is slightly better house trained!.
One off-shoot of all this is that i have lost weight... not a diet plan i am about to launch on YouTube or make into a DvD just yet, but hell if it works for now i can live with it !.
I wish you all a great week ahead and enjoy the forecasted 'sunny' Bank holiday' !
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