If you watch the news or you’re someone that gets their newsfeed off twitter or social media, it would be easy to enter into a world of darkness thinking that everything is terrible and that nothing can make a difference.
Although the news is sometimes interspersed with squirrels on waterskis or puppies running round flags, it’s mostly terrible and presents a picture of the world where nothing is working and everything is heading in the wrong direction.
There are two possible options and antidotes to that:
- Hide yourself away
Make a pile of all your winnings and go and live in the house on the cliff by the sea, keeping the doors shut and not interacting with humanity.
2) Try to make a tiny little difference day after day.
The problem with the tiny little difference is that it’s tiny and it’s often unseen and unseeable and so the stamina required to continue to try to make a positive difference day after day becomes more and more exhausting and that becomes the work.
The alternative is a slow death in isolation, neither are an easy path.
The thing about drip, drip, drip is that ultimately it fills the bucket as enough drips hit the bucket.
You and I and anybody else who gives a sh*t can only hope that there are enough people dripping instead of running away to make a positive difference in the end.
With that in mind and only as an excuse to tell this story, The Campbell Clinic & Academy team are doing a virtual travel challenge in September to raise money to support the Children’s Bereavement Centre in Nottingham.
We plan to travel to Edinburgh virtually as a team and travel back and travel there again and back as many times as we think we can possibly manage.
It looks pretty much like Louis Dunne is probably going to go there and back himself through his training and so the job for the rest of us is to not let him beat everybody else put together.
We’ve not asked for charity money for ages (except for the ball of course) and so I hope that you might be able to help us to raise money for this extraordinary charity in Nottingham that looks after children who have lost a parent or parents.
The other thing is that it encourages us to all get to work in ways which aren’t using a car but also to do some exercise and take some time out that doesn’t involve using a car.
The link to donate is here and hope you can help.
See you soon.
Blog Post Number - 2843
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