At What Cost?
At what cost… I used to believe that there were some “professions” that held some social gravitas. Doctors, lawyers, teachers….. Yes, you worked hard and needed a plethora of qualifications but you gained respect, stability… status. I look around me now and I see liars, cheats, some might even say “murderers” being paraded as the paragons of society. They are rewarded and forgiven for greed and duplicity. They are fawned over and revered by every day people as something to aspire to. Their selfish, egotistical narcissism has gilded them with an air of confidence that the world has bought into: hook, line and sinker. I stood in a supermarket today having a lighthearted chat with two ladies about having finally succumbed to switching our heating on. We laughed. The elder of the two commented that it reminded her of her youth when fires were lit only at Christmas. There have always been times of hardship and there has always been those who feel it more ...