Attitude

How would you improve your community?

We need to return to the idea of community rather than the isolationist idea of other. Not me.

We need to start prizing the old fashioned ideas of courtesy and respect over violence and hate speech. Trolls should be made of concrete and placed in the garden.

It takes a lot of courage and inner strength to be a good person, with respect for others, who demonstrates kindness. It would be much easier to get a bat sometimes, but you won’t break good people that easily, we’re made of far stronger stuff.

We need to change, because the generations creating the appalling behaviour we’re seeing in the UK, and throughout the world, are setting up a terrible future for themselves and their children.

Younger people laugh at those stuck in the old days, stuck in the old ways, but for once we’re in the right. What we’re seeing isn’t progress.

My youth was mainly very beautiful. Knife crime was a shocking and appalling event, a very very occasional event. Now we have machetes, guns, you name it.

It was a real, natural life spent in the outdoors with simple toys and we had to be creative and inventive, make up our own games. We played together and communicated.

They said years ago that playing violent computer games would lead to violence becoming a more casual thing in the future. We laughed. They were right.

We need peace, respect, inclusion, teamwork, connection, and that’s how I would improve my community if I could. It’s what I’d do for the entire world if I could.

Deb xx