It’s the Olympics and everyone (rephrase: everyone in the media) is getting terribly excited about the World’s Greatest Sporting Event and, let’s face it, one of the world’s biggest events. Just to remind you that it happens once every four years and was last in London way, way before my lifetime and probably won’t be there again whilst I’m alive.
Again, the world’s biggest and greatest sporting event is starting in London and it’s on for 3 weeks. The person interviewed on the news this morning was just totally typical of the soul destroying, dust grinding, jaw clenching, constant, oh so constant irritations of the UK health and social system. I say HSS because the person interviewed afterwards didn’t work in that milieu and was cheery and positive. Oh this woman moaned....
Reminder - GREATEST EVENT for THREE WEEKS ONCE A LIFETIME!
She worked in Newham as a Mental Health Worker and lived in Brixton, she cycled to work so had no travel disruption. The reason that she was totally fed up with the Olympics and wished London had never got it was....... some meetings had been postponed until after the Olympics, and some clients had difficulty getting in. I’m not even going to go into locality of clients (for those who don’t know, Newham is not large) and the mental health benefits of walking. Errh, which bit of GREATEST EVENT EVER!!!! aren't you getting?? And to think I had to put up with the constant mental rubbing of this sort of attitude every day.
Oh the marvellousness of living in a culture that encourages positivity. We had a whole lot from Proverbs last night and this just shows – ‘A cheerful look brings joy to the heart’. ‘Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones’, and ‘A cheerful heart is good medicine,’
Still, mustn’t grumble.
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