The Write Direction: Wasted long weekend

THE long Easter weekend provided me with the opportunity to stay close to home and delivered down time for me to think about our world and where we are headed.

Yes, I know that was a mistake and I’m still agonising over the fact that I should have found something more productive to do with this spare time.

Reacting to world events I was trying to make sense of what global leaders might be playing at.

Have you ever listened to someone for a while and wondered who ties their shoelaces for them?

For those national leaders who can’t take time out to reflect, their life must be like toilet paper.

They are either on a roll or they are receiving crap from their detractors.

Hardly a pleasant task at the best of times.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that our planet might be used by other planets as a dumping ground for dills.

Possibly our extremely brave astronauts on their trip of a lifetime might be able to shed some light on that probability. Otherwise, they might just think that politics has become show business for ugly people.

This cycle of bluffs, threats, fear and erratic retractions is never going to succeed in changing our world to become a better place.

Once your mind is made up as a leader and you clearly have your community on side with the direction in which you need to move, then the only response is to get on with the job at hand and deliver a result in the quickest possible time.

Whilst you and I are getting anxious about the cost of diesel and petrol, we know that once these costs have risen to the present extraordinary levels, they will never retreat to the pre-Christmas levels that we thought were expensive.  But since we have all demonstrated that we can’t live without fuel, the reality becomes that we just continue to pay the higher price and complain about it later.

By John BLACKBOURN