I was listening to Radio 1 in surgery the other day, it was the morning and Clara Amfo was on.
I really like Clara Amfo and I like to listen to her. She sounds like she’s totally full of fun and loves life and really appreciates the circumstance she finds herself in, but like the rest of us parts of her are broken.
She was explaining how she had been back to see her therapist whom she hadn’t seen for a while, but who she felt the need to go and see. She talked about how the whole of society is going to struggle with the continued problems that we find from the pandemic, but she was completely open about her own struggles and her own difficulties.
I spoke to Alison about it when I got home because I was so touched by her comments and Alison told me her story about how her dad had died and how much she had struggled with it (Clara that is). I don’t think we need to televise personal breakdowns and I don’t think we need the paparazzi’s camera's running after people as they crack in half or struggle visibly but to talk about it openly and to tell the tale of what you’ve struggled with and what you struggle with is to share a problem and to half a problem.
Not only does it make you feel better though; it helps the people around you who feel they have to be perfect in todays society when there is no such thing.
I was touched by John Gibson’s brokenness concept when he spoke to us the other week as I discussed in a previous blog and it’s something that I’ll carry with me from now on.
I think the blog was supposed to be like that from the outset. I think it was supposed to be a message to myself about the nature of what my life is like and how it goes up and how it comes down but almost always when it goes down it comes back up again.
Blog Post Number - 2512
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