Driving to work this week (should have been cycling) and listening to Nicky Campbell host the 5 Live phone-in for about the 4 minutes that it takes me to get to work in a car.
My breath was taken away as a woman described what she is having to ‘go without’ so that her children’s get a proper meal and so they get some form of pretend Christmas.
This is a woman in the UK who is having less than she needs to eat so that her children can have just about as much as they need to eat.
Before hearing that conversation I was thinking about some of my own troubles and then I wasn’t anymore.
For years I’ve played this game where I think I have a problem and then my wife returns from her work and explains what a problem actually is.
Everybody stresses their stress and when you’re fed up or tired or stressed or feel under pressure, it feels like it’s the most important thing in the world until you pan out and look at the world and realise it means nothing.
The things that I worry about mostly are not really things to worry about at all but at least I can tell myself that and try to be better at celebrating the ups and insulating myself from the downs.
Blog Post Number - 2943