A week ago I had another operation on my eye and can now see
again in both eyes, albeit quite blurry in the one eye. It is a great relief. In many ways the experience has been a good
one, although not one I would have chosen.
It has made me realize how blessed I have been to have had good eye
sight all my life. It makes me
appreciate my friend who has tunnel vision.
She gets the very best out of life despite the disability and never complains.
It is the difficult circumstances in life that teach us the most. We don’t like going through them but they are
a blessing in disguise. The “pursuit of happiness” is not brought about by
money, fame or fortune; the best lessons are the hard ones. This life is a
training ground not a picnic.
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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