It has a funny way of moving on before you even realise it doesn't it?!
The good news, in brief, since my last post - I got my driving licence back for another year - wahoo. I also saw Prof Webster at Moorfields in August and he's happy that the RP isn't progressing much at all at the moment, which is a massive relief. There's no results from the Genomes Project yet but that's the same for everybody so he wasn't concerned. Hopefully we'll hear more about that by the time I go and see him again in 18 months time.
The bad news.
There seems to be so much of it around at the moment doesn't there? I'm struggling to comprehend the world a little bit at the moment - there seems to be so many atrocities and far too many innocent lives being lost just now.
I was so, so sad to hear about the Paris attacks - don't get me wrong, the similar attacks in Beirut, Raqqa and Mali are equally as tragic but I, perhaps like many others, can relate so easily to the Paris attacks that it feels a bit more real somehow. I've been there several times, I recognise the streets and monuments, I feel at home there and speak a little of the language.
In all honesty, I don't really understand any of it. Oh, I know about the power, the 'religion', the revenge etc etc
But how can we do this to each other? How can we willingly cause so much pain and destruction?
Essentially, it's all down to greed. We want what someone else has or just something 'more'.
If we were all kinder to each other and shared some of the wealth around, none of this would happen. Too simplified? Obviously. But true perhaps.
As an ex colleague pointed out this week, none of this has anything to do with race. In reality there isn't really such a thing as multiple races. Ethnic origin, yes. But does it matter whether you are black, white, brown, yellow, blue? No. Colour is irrelevant. Religion is irrelevant.
We are all one race. Human.
If only we remembered that sometimes.
Anyway, enough pondering. I'm going to go hug my child, tell my family I love them more often and be kinder to the people I meet in every day life.
Just because I can. And I should.
AFUK x
