While at the Royal Festival Hall last Saturday with the writing group, it turned out that they had their WOW (Women of the World) Festival on. I stumbled across Mary Portas talking about her latest project(s) and how we need to begin to be more responsible about how we spend our money and what we perceive as good value for money. ‘Borrowing’ some of her words, I wrote a loose, not too thought out, piece about what I thought about ‘value’ that day (though I use Mary Portas’s words at times, the following does not, in any way, reflect her opinions, but are, in fact my own, at at times I paraphrase the new head of Ofsted based on chinese whispers.
I do not write long pieces. I do not (yet) have stamina for long pieces of writing…
We have to replace greed with generosity; make it a tonic for the nation.
We have to remind ourselves that we are a community.
To say that if morale is too high in schools then they are more likely to be underachieving is absurd.
To pit one community, hospital, school, against another in a consumerist model is absurd.
In families, in strong, supportive communities, we ‘walk differently’, we believe in ourselves and, in turn, help others to be what they deserve to be.
Each is not only what they make themselves but what others allow them to be.
That the ‘haves’ are there through hard work alone and the ‘have-nots’ are nothing but lazy is an insult to what we have the potential to offer.
