I love music, but I don’t have a musical bone in my body. But sometimes I wish I did – especially when I see things like this. But alas not a chance. Youtube has also been serving up some interesting videos recently. This one popped up as an option tonight, takes me back to my youth.
It’s a good way to spend a bank holiday – wandering from one Youtube video to the next. Unfortunately that wasn’t my day. Working internationally in a time critical business means bank holidays often don’t make much difference.
It can be a bit of a pain listening to the garden parties going on as you work. I think this bank holiday I was more aware of the people working through holidays to preserve lives. I know the country needs to have a smile on it’s face, but somehow the VE day celebrations just didn’t seem the right thing emotionally.
I’m not saying that the day shouldn’t have been marked – just so many of the celebrations seemed self-indulgent – the war ended 75 years ago. I saw people trying to replicate the feelings of that day. Me – I would rather have something a little more somber – remembering the people that gave their lives for others. I spotted a film on TV and I decided to read up on the events – to hear about the role of the Welsh rough sleeper in saving lives.
And today many of the people working today in the NHS are putting our future before their lives. I wonder if we will have celebrations in 75 years to remember them, or will we just clap for two minutes a week till the end of lockdown?
It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
Frodo
And so I had an almost normal working day. You see world domination is a business that never sleeps.