Another fretful day of job-hunting, where I was once again given hope of work, only to have it swiped away from my open arms, was followed by a very tight and encouraging band practice. It's nice when something good like that can brighten a day that otherwise would have been full of despair. Sometimes that's all it takes, one good thing to happen to drag you through a shitty days, and make things look just that little bit better before you go to bed.
And, as much as I keep moaning about not having a job - and perhaps I do have valid reason to moan after having been desperately seeking one for nearly 3 months - things could definitely be worse. I have my health, I have my friends - even if I can't afford to go out and do anything with them, I have my band, a house to live in, some clothes that sort of fit me, and probably loads of other good stuff.
Bob Dylan once said that, "A man is a success if he can get out of a bed in the morning, go to bed at night, and do whatever he wants to do during the day", and, to an extent, he was probably right. You shouldn't focus so much on material wealth - although sometimes it does facilitate certain aspects of life. I don't have a job, and therefore money to do a lot of things, but it isn't the end of the world, I just need to try harder and not get too bogged down.
Was encouraged greatly by the numbers of people that seemed to have turned out for the public sector strike today, and it really does show a solidarity from the working class of the country that they aren't happy to take the fall for our failing economy, where perhaps the more wealthy seem to escape more easily. It is a solidarity that I hope will eventually change this country, and prove something to the rich that govern us that something is deeply wrong.
There is a disparity in this country. Unfortunately those that govern us, or rather those in Government (or in our Houses of Parliament) are seemingly so removed from society as a whole that they are hardly qualified to judge it, and even condemn it. Our Prime Minister, for example, as well as his cabinet - and this is no different in the opposition party either - are all from wealthy, middle and upper class backgrounds, where they have never experienced the hardships that life throws at those less fortunate. I'm not saying they haven't worked hard to get where they are - as they obviously have - but it is a different kind of hard work to that that the vast majority of the population have to undertake on a daily basis, where small decisions for the politicians, like those which have sparked this latest strike, are proved to be massive decisions for the average worker. Whether it is entirely accurate or not, and I think it most probably is, those less well off seem to take the brunt of the punishment for our economic crisis where the rich seem to get away easier.
Maybe it is the same for all, and maybe we do ALL have to accept the hardships of digging our way out of this recession, that's not my argument. But these decisions will ALWAYS hurt the poor more. Where you can avoid any section of society hurting - and where someone else is comfortably off - then surely that is wrong. It isn't 'socialism' or ''left-wing' or any other title you may want to give it, it is just humanity and empathy in the face of greed.
Today, Mr Cameron brushed aside the millions of public sector workers striking as just 'left-wing nonsense', just in the same way he brushed aside the riots in August as just a work of troublemakers. Perhaps there is a deeper disparity in society than he, and many others, will ever see from atop of their perch. If you stand at the top of a skyscraper you will see blue skies, vista's, and magnificence - get down to the street level and get immersed in it, and you will see plunder and murder.
Just a thought. Right, now I'm going to let myself down and watch 'Meet The Fockers' on television.
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