Disabled or Enabled?

This whole title Disabled is SO WRONG If you want to meet specially enabled people then I’d  refer you to spend some time with so called ‘disabled’ people.

You won’t find many whinging about their lot or bemoaning the reasons for their differences. Far from it! Many are doing work to help others, given they can’t get paid jobs!

Likewise family carers are not tired from caring but caring without getting any support for their cared for person or themselves without a fight! Everything you need is a fight to get. Nothing is a service from the authorities.

It’s not enough that care in the community saves the nation £135 billion ..... money that would otherwise have to be found in taxation.
Make those same responsible caring people fight for a little respite .... even if only to enable them to work and thus support their cared for person more easily!

Or better still, if possible, support the special person to become a working enabled tax paying member of society!

Even if not capable of that,  surely nobody would condone shutting away in isolation both the cared for and by definition also the carer in 21st C Uk?

That just leads to social isolation which leads to mental illness for carer and cared for which leads to more NHS bills/ suicides.

How short sighted and obvious is that?

Just for one moment imagine you had no say in your own life, no choices that you yourself could make, no social life and no chance of meeting friends, no opportunities to work, no place to call home and no way of changing any of that. You were totally reliant on others looking out for you and doing right by you.

Just stop and think and maybe at this time of good will you might just extend that good will into good thoughts and deeds.

Not ignoring, not closing eyes, ears and minds but actually caring!

Because if you think you have been supporting too many whingers for too long, think again and when you become one of those so-called whingers feel the reality! It’s waiting for so many of you! Wake up!

Unless you are all happy to sign a maximum age declaration before euthanasia or think you can avoid that serious accident or ethnic cleanse by genetics before birth you need to think hard about your futures even if you are incapable of thinking of others.

I am ashamed of people who pay lip service to ‘ being charitable ‘

We are the charitable ones saving your taxes!

Our cared for are not charity cases,  they are the most special people you may ever have the pleasure of getting to know! If you ever took time out of your perfect materialistic worlds to find out you may know that already.

Yes I’m angry not for me ..... I have the pleasure of meeting and mixing with the most incredible people who put me to shame in so many ways and have taught me so much more than I ever would have learned any other way and given such joy and simple  pleasure. It’s the system that stinks and it’s nothing to do with money it’s to do with attitude and self centred smugness that easily falls to the ground in seconds.

As the dust settles from the recent general election, it’s easy to slip into a mood of fear and despair. Instead we should be looking at building alliances. Many people that I know, are apprehensive about what the next five years holds, both for themselves and the people they care about. Others are concerned about climate change and environmental issues, or conflicts and injustices in dark parts of the world.

As we watch political parties ripping themselves apart, it is becoming all too clear that their focus is nothing to do with presenting a united, coherent opposition. With the new government already talking major curtailment of fundamental human rights, further major welfare cuts, repealing the hunting ban, privatisation in the NHS and education and much more, there is plenty to oppose. Instead they are agonising over who and what might make them electable in five or ten years’ time.

We all have things that are important to us and we will all speak up about these things. In so doing, we should not lose sight of our many friends and acquaintances, whose fears and concerns are just as real and valid as our own. Just because their concerns may not be high on our agenda doesn’t prevent us taking an interest, sharing knowledge, advice, perspective, offering support and encouragement. Individually we are merely candles, flickering precariously in the wind. Together we add fuel to the flame, turning them into bright burning beacons of hope and solace.