This is not the post I was intending to write this week, but circumstances have made me change tack. I hope you will bear with me. Before I start, this is not a pity post. It’s a reality check for all of us and a siren call to myself to be more compassionate and understanding. It’s true that you never know what struggles people are going through.
I read this last night, and hesitated over what I might say. I still can’t think of any words that will change things but ‘I hear you’ and hope you find a way through it all with the help of those around you. We’re supposedly a wealthy country but there is a growing chasm in both reality and understanding by those in government that bewilders and frustrates.
How kind of you to consider saying anything, Michela. Thank you.
There absolutely is a chasm, as you say. I think a lot of our politicians live in a totally different world to the rest of us and have little idea - or care - about how tough life can be.
I read this last night, and hesitated over what I might say. I still can’t think of any words that will change things but ‘I hear you’ and hope you find a way through it all with the help of those around you. We’re supposedly a wealthy country but there is a growing chasm in both reality and understanding by those in government that bewilders and frustrates.
How kind of you to consider saying anything, Michela. Thank you.
There absolutely is a chasm, as you say. I think a lot of our politicians live in a totally different world to the rest of us and have little idea - or care - about how tough life can be.