Thought Train

Sunday and the fifty-fifth Covid blog.

I have so many thoughts running through my head at the moment and most of them seem to be fairly negative, due to the current situation here in Blighty.

Any government would have found this chapter in our world an ‘annus horribllis’ but the contradictory information we are currently being given by this institution and the immoral behaviour conducted by those in charge of running the country, has my head spinning.

I was speaking to a like minded friend and colleague this week who concurred that as he gets older, he seems to be more enraged rather than mellowing with age, most especially due to the current climate.

I find myself in a similar situation and writing this verse play, has engorged all sorts of emotions inside me. Whilst in the most part, I hope it is humorous, there are issues I am addressing that highlight there are some things, that fundamentally, have not changed.

Without discussion, however difficult, ignorance will reign and so my train of thought followed a track from my past which recently surfaced, due to the presence of a similar situation rearing it’s ugly head.

The verse I have written I am told, is powerful, and sadly something that many will connect with and a situation not just experienced by women. Important to have a balance and I was incensed to learn that these incidents although not as prevalent, were just as easily and equally discarded.

Researching and interviewing friends and colleagues for this play, has been far more emotional than I expected and a little cathartic.

I am looking forward to being able to devote more time to it, when I break for the summer holidays. I am still excited but realise I need to take it slowly, to give it the justice, I hope, it deserves.

Life really does take us on a journey and although that may seem obvious, it still surprises me, perhaps that is it’s purpose, to always keep us on our toes?

I am currently still in the football sweepstake, a little sad that Scotland are out of the tournament but I am secretly cheering on Belgium. Our lives race on and our pre-Covid existence is slowly returning.

The tunnel of light is ever widening, even though it seems, for our island, it is on a different slant and direction from the rest of the world.

I do not feel I have any major pearls of wisdom to impart in today’s blog but there is so much on the horizon I feel, not just for myself, but for us all.

Keep the faith, the end is in sight, just slightly askew, with a bend or two, maybe a few hurdles and the possibility of a bag of nails in our path, but we’ll get there. Eventually. 😉

Stay Safe,

Joy xxx