Alcohol in moderation is a pleasure for many people. For whatever reason I do not enjoy the stuff at all. True I was brought up teetotal but in adulthood tried various drinks but found I really preferred a good old J2O mango and apple. However this has not made me judgmental in my attitude to those who have problems with alcohol. It seems to me that these people have had some great problem or sadness in their lives and have turned to alcohol to try to drown out the pain, only to find that they then have another problem to live with. I explore this in my poetry and look at help available in this web page The Drunk
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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