Pain and suffering
Wellness is a connection of paths: Knowledge and Action. - Josh Welch
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
How horrible must it be to think that something in your life that you thought had gone away, was always there because you were given the wrong information?
“Who runs the Republic’s health service?” was the headline of a story on BBC’s news website yesterday. I would respond with the answer “Who runs the country?”
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Zero Star Health Service
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
The scrutiny will only get worse this week as the Leader of this country once again steps into the spotlight and gives a performance that he hopes will bore everyone to tears in a such a way as they will want to forget about anything remotely to do with a tribunal.
Meanwhile, away from Planet Bertie, [...]
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Remembering the departed.
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
From my own experiences of losing a family member, I know that it can sometimes be too painful to go and visit their grave. Sometimes it can just simply be a case of time healing all wounds and we let their memory fade and the need to visit lessens.
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A Hope for Innocence
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
When the Madeleine McCann first broke in May there was widespread interest as to the whereabouts of the four-year old. After the apparent situation could have happened to any parent on holiday and with that a close bond was formed between those who have young children of empathy and sympathy.
Fast forward to the present and [...]
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Stop The Hurt
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
I once knew of a woman, from my university days, who admitted to me one night that she had been beaten by her boyfriend. The one thing that struck a chord with me was her revelation that, upon being hit for the first time, it was “so out of character and not like him at [...]
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Depression
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Depression is a horrible thing. Speaking from personal experience I can tell you that right there and then you believe that no one in the world understands what you are feeling or going through and that no one will ever have a chance of helping you come back to a more stable state of mind.
The [...]
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The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers. - Peter Drucker
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
A lot of crimes go unpunished in the world. It has happened long before I was born and will continue to happen long after my death.
As I’ve stated many time, we all have a belief that the further away something is, the less we are bothered by it. With that in mind I give you [...]
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Driving the message
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Whether we like it or not rubbernecking exists. When the traffic is slowed on a road because of an accident we all try and stretch to see what happened as we drive by. Some of these accidents are the result of drink driving.
The advertisements we see on television that warn of the perils of drink [...]
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“Armas para que” (“Guns, for what?”) - Fidel Castro
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
A survey by the Graduate Institute of International Studies has revealed that three times more weapons are held by civilians than by all the world’s armies and police forces together, 650 million compared with 250 million. It seems a shocking statistic and that pleas to solve matters peacefully are falling on deaf ears.
The urban centres [...]
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Responsibility
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Being a teenager in recent times means being in the spotlight as the media seem to have taken it upon themselves to highlight a lack of morals and rule breaking from them.
It is shocking when you consider the acts that have taken place and those that are said to have committed them, but maybe we [...]
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