Is it Saturday? Is it Easter? It must be as my calendar says so but there is a feeling of unreality about time at present that is very odd.
My sister says life feels quite 'discombobulated' at the moment and I think she has a point. There are elements of normal and huge deviations from normal...most strange. I haven't yet quite worked out how to take it.
Here it is so odd ..it feels like the calm before a storm at present .the air is calm but could it be crackling with tension or is that just my imagination? .anyway it's a storm we hope doesn't arrive yet it sounds like New York and parts of the UK are in the centre of Maelstroms ...so heart breakingly sad and to those going about their lives there it must have been unexpected...
But should it have been unexpected ? later I wonder if accountability will come and that concrete changes will be made to ensure that responses to such events are vastly improved and good people are not unnecessarily placed in the position of placing their health and lives on the line when for many I am afraid it need not have been so.
Why would I say that? I don't think this because it's easy to be wise later but more personally because around late January. I finally got on line to buy tickets for a much delayed trip to visit family in the UK.
To our great disappointment circumstances meant that in both 2018 and again 2019 plans for trips were dashed.
Still 2020 was a definite. Iceland air was the flight of choice ..tickets chosen
but before clicking buy...an uneasy wariness overtook me as I'd noticed reports of a virus spreading in China that had the potential to be a pandemic and what I read unsettled me.
I wasn't looking for such alerts just kept noticing them when browsing.
The tickets we bought would be expensive...worth it but pricey.. so just in case I checked if insurance would cover us if the virus kicked off.
As best I could tell it wouldn't so I made the decision to delay buying tickets and took the view that we could look for tickets closer to the date and take the risk that they would still be affordable....not ideal but better than losing our ticket money ..after all we could delay one more year ...we didn't want to but we could.
I never envisaged the World as it is now. But some people did. It was their job and they did it but they appear to have been ignored or side lined and that was so not OK people have paid with their lives because of it . If it was obvious enough for an ordinary person to notice those in charge have no excuse..what were they thinking? .... I could ponder more on this but don't think now is the time. Now like it or not we have to do the best we can in the circumstances we are in and hope we all live to tell the tale.
My sister says life feels quite 'discombobulated' at the moment and I think she has a point. There are elements of normal and huge deviations from normal...most strange. I haven't yet quite worked out how to take it.
Here it is so odd ..it feels like the calm before a storm at present .the air is calm but could it be crackling with tension or is that just my imagination? .anyway it's a storm we hope doesn't arrive yet it sounds like New York and parts of the UK are in the centre of Maelstroms ...so heart breakingly sad and to those going about their lives there it must have been unexpected...
But should it have been unexpected ? later I wonder if accountability will come and that concrete changes will be made to ensure that responses to such events are vastly improved and good people are not unnecessarily placed in the position of placing their health and lives on the line when for many I am afraid it need not have been so.
Why would I say that? I don't think this because it's easy to be wise later but more personally because around late January. I finally got on line to buy tickets for a much delayed trip to visit family in the UK.
To our great disappointment circumstances meant that in both 2018 and again 2019 plans for trips were dashed.
Still 2020 was a definite. Iceland air was the flight of choice ..tickets chosen
but before clicking buy...an uneasy wariness overtook me as I'd noticed reports of a virus spreading in China that had the potential to be a pandemic and what I read unsettled me.
I wasn't looking for such alerts just kept noticing them when browsing.
The tickets we bought would be expensive...worth it but pricey.. so just in case I checked if insurance would cover us if the virus kicked off.
As best I could tell it wouldn't so I made the decision to delay buying tickets and took the view that we could look for tickets closer to the date and take the risk that they would still be affordable....not ideal but better than losing our ticket money ..after all we could delay one more year ...we didn't want to but we could.
I never envisaged the World as it is now. But some people did. It was their job and they did it but they appear to have been ignored or side lined and that was so not OK people have paid with their lives because of it . If it was obvious enough for an ordinary person to notice those in charge have no excuse..what were they thinking? .... I could ponder more on this but don't think now is the time. Now like it or not we have to do the best we can in the circumstances we are in and hope we all live to tell the tale.
Happy Easter to you, Val! Yes, your sister has the right word I think. Everything is just weird at the moment. I'm still struggling to get my head around the whole business to be honest.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC interviewed Bill Gates this morning. He made one of his speeches back in 2015 or 16 expressing his opinion that the biggest thing facing the planet was not nuclear war but the threat of a pandemic and what it could do. Of course none of the people that count were listening or did anything much and here we are. He was hopeful that from this we will learn lessons for when the next one hits. I hope so too. What an amazing man.
I'm so glad that you didn't purchase that flight. Sometimes we just know somehow. Much more trivial but I spent a few months in the autumn stocking up on 3,000 piece jigsaw puzzles. I bought about 10. Peter asked me why and I couldn't give him a concrete answer, just that I had an odd feeling about 2020. Not all things are explicable.
You take care. xxx
Happy Easter Cath, It's nice to think of you with a satisfying amount of puzzles..serendipity or providential ..either way I'm glad. Many Thanks for Mrs Polifax she kept me company yesterday. Today I reset with Victoria Wood on youtube... it's harder to fall into the glooms after a good laugh. Take Care xxxx
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