Now I have a headache!

Which topics would you like to be more informed about?

I can’t begin to make all the topics because I may be interested in things I didn’t know existed and what if I forgot one of those?! 😱

I am eternally curious. Part of the reason I’m not an expert in any subject is that if it’s new it interests me. I can’t focus down in a world this varied.

I’ve always been the same. When I was a child I went through the ‘why’ phase, but my mother said it wasn’t a childish thing, I wanted explanations and answers until I understood.

When I was 17 I went to work in Ambulance Service Admin, my dad was an officer in the London emergency control. My boss rang him one day as asked when I would stop asking ‘why?’ Dad said ‘When she knows the procedures as well as you do, just teach her.’

I haven’t changed and I’m so grateful for that.

I’m 66 and still thrilled by life, concerned about the state of humanity of course, but I’m not jaded. This world and the universe has so much to offer that’s amazing and thrilling, there’s so much for me to learn, that I don’t feel even vaguely old. I’m still a student. How lucky am I?

I’d like to know anything about anything I don’t know, more about what I do know, but there is one thing I would truly like to understand but don’t think I ever will. The human capacity to hurt and do harm

Why just why?

One thing we know now is that our regular politicians are not the worst people on this planet. The scammers alone leave them in the shade.

My friend had the most spiteful approach on social media yesterday warning him that if he didn’t click a link to verify his business account it would be taken down tomorrow and he would never be allowed back.

They now believe a lot of trouble is coming from TikTok where ‘influencers’ wind people up to cause unrest, go and take great videos, and get millions of likes. What does a like even mean? They’ve traced the terrible French riots of the summer partly to social media and the race for likes.

So I’m open to understanding anything new, but in truth I’m not certain I’d really like to understand the human capacity to hurt, it would be toxic.

I’d just like humanity to grow up and realise we’re all soul, all in this together, in charge of a planet that we don’t deserve to have, and that one day we will have to account for all this. Plus our children will pay for what we do now.

Couldn’t we just try to leave the planet in good shape, with peaceful thriving societies, for future generations, and the minds, bodies, and lives, of those around us intact?

Maybe I’m on a hiding to nothing! What a sad thought.

Deb xx