Post by Dave on Jan 1, 2009 11:01:21 GMT
Since breaking up for Christmas on the 23rd December and until new years eve, I have not had on a radio, or watched any TV, that had any news programs on. The whole outside world and what has been going on, I have not been aware of, Carol has worked many of the days I have been off and I have lived so much in my world on the forum.
When I return to work on Monday, I will have the radio on all day, I will hear so much music I love, do the Ken Bruce pop quiz and listen to the debates on the J.Vine show.I know that every hour I will hear the main news and will then be fully aware once more of all that is going on in the world I live in.
So I had my tea in front the TV at 6pm last night and on came a news program, I learned what has been going on with Israeli and the shocking news that nearly 400 Palestinians have been killed, all going on and I was completely unaware of it. Then the news was full of the same doom and gloom that was showing the last time I watched a news report.
Yes the dreaded credit crunch and talk about how things will be in 2009, but I wanted to look forward to a new year, wanted to believe that while 2008 was not such a good year, 2009 was going to be so much better. Well the man on the TV was not saying the things I wanted to hear.The easy answer, would have been just to switch the TV off and go back to the ignorance I had enjoyed for the last week in my life.
So many people would have been out enjoying party's on news year eve,forgetting just for a short while all the problems, worries and concerns for the their future, that they will have to face, when they sober up today. Maybe the new year they were so happy to welcome in, suddenly may not look so bright.
It might be some man down on Torquay seafront, collecting signatures to rid the Bay of the balloon, who is about to lose his home, not due to anything he has done, but some City Slickers who has caused so much of todays problems. Just what would this new year hold for him, what can he look forward too.
The thing is we have little or no control of so much that will effect the year 2009, we may have worked has hard as we did in 2008 and still find that we end up walking down to the job center, or find we have to start buying those Tesco cornflakes and not the real ones, we believe taste so much better.
What is important to remember is, that we will still be here, still have our family and friends and together and maybe with a little help, we all will come through what could and may happen. We could just let it all drag us down to the gutter, but come on we are British and we are meant to have that fighting spirit, the never give up attitude.
Times really have been so much worst in days past and for so many in the world it will always be really bad for them. while we will never have to face and deal with what they may have too.I have learned over the years to take on the chin, all this world throws at me, I can't change or even stop some of the things that happen in my life, but I can make sure I lessen the damage and impact it has on me and those around me I love and care for.
I have always taken the view, that it is not the rest of the worlds fault what is happing to me, so I should not be taking it out on anyone, instead I should continue to treat each and every person who I come into contact with, the same way I know I want to be treated. So I put on a smile because surly that is better than walking around with a big sad looking face? and I say to myself that I'm alive and today I will make sure I enjoy and get as much as I can from the day.
What has all this got to do with football, I hear you say and our football team? Well I'll tell you, it is the reason I could walk away after the last home defeat and still be smiling,I watched my team try their best, I got to talk with some good people and the defeat was not the end of the world. I saw enough to tell me that my team has plenty to give me so much hope and that for the club there are so many better things to come.
It may not happen the way I would like it too in this year 2009, that could still end up in tears on the pitch, but then those tears could end up being tears of joy and celebration, I do not have a crystal ball and will just have to wait and see. One thing I will not do is write my team off, or give up the hopes and dreams I have for the club I love and has been a big part of my life, for more years than I care to remember.
How easy Is it to switch off the TV, if you don't like the news, how easy is it to just give up, because the team lost a few games, but how much more rewarding is it to know that you have stuck with it all, through the good times and even the bad. Yes those great days when we were going to games at White Hart Lane, Hillsbrough, to name just two, not really the same as going to Histon, but it is still our team and it still needs our support.
Lets continue to give it the support we have and help play our part in getting it to where we want it to go, the world really won't stop, if there was no longer a TUFC, but we know our life's having TUFC in our hearts and sharing all the ups and downs with so many great people who love and follow the club, just like we do, is really not so bad after all.
Have a great year, the furture is bright and yellow.
When I return to work on Monday, I will have the radio on all day, I will hear so much music I love, do the Ken Bruce pop quiz and listen to the debates on the J.Vine show.I know that every hour I will hear the main news and will then be fully aware once more of all that is going on in the world I live in.
So I had my tea in front the TV at 6pm last night and on came a news program, I learned what has been going on with Israeli and the shocking news that nearly 400 Palestinians have been killed, all going on and I was completely unaware of it. Then the news was full of the same doom and gloom that was showing the last time I watched a news report.
Yes the dreaded credit crunch and talk about how things will be in 2009, but I wanted to look forward to a new year, wanted to believe that while 2008 was not such a good year, 2009 was going to be so much better. Well the man on the TV was not saying the things I wanted to hear.The easy answer, would have been just to switch the TV off and go back to the ignorance I had enjoyed for the last week in my life.
So many people would have been out enjoying party's on news year eve,forgetting just for a short while all the problems, worries and concerns for the their future, that they will have to face, when they sober up today. Maybe the new year they were so happy to welcome in, suddenly may not look so bright.
It might be some man down on Torquay seafront, collecting signatures to rid the Bay of the balloon, who is about to lose his home, not due to anything he has done, but some City Slickers who has caused so much of todays problems. Just what would this new year hold for him, what can he look forward too.
The thing is we have little or no control of so much that will effect the year 2009, we may have worked has hard as we did in 2008 and still find that we end up walking down to the job center, or find we have to start buying those Tesco cornflakes and not the real ones, we believe taste so much better.
What is important to remember is, that we will still be here, still have our family and friends and together and maybe with a little help, we all will come through what could and may happen. We could just let it all drag us down to the gutter, but come on we are British and we are meant to have that fighting spirit, the never give up attitude.
Times really have been so much worst in days past and for so many in the world it will always be really bad for them. while we will never have to face and deal with what they may have too.I have learned over the years to take on the chin, all this world throws at me, I can't change or even stop some of the things that happen in my life, but I can make sure I lessen the damage and impact it has on me and those around me I love and care for.
I have always taken the view, that it is not the rest of the worlds fault what is happing to me, so I should not be taking it out on anyone, instead I should continue to treat each and every person who I come into contact with, the same way I know I want to be treated. So I put on a smile because surly that is better than walking around with a big sad looking face? and I say to myself that I'm alive and today I will make sure I enjoy and get as much as I can from the day.
What has all this got to do with football, I hear you say and our football team? Well I'll tell you, it is the reason I could walk away after the last home defeat and still be smiling,I watched my team try their best, I got to talk with some good people and the defeat was not the end of the world. I saw enough to tell me that my team has plenty to give me so much hope and that for the club there are so many better things to come.
It may not happen the way I would like it too in this year 2009, that could still end up in tears on the pitch, but then those tears could end up being tears of joy and celebration, I do not have a crystal ball and will just have to wait and see. One thing I will not do is write my team off, or give up the hopes and dreams I have for the club I love and has been a big part of my life, for more years than I care to remember.
How easy Is it to switch off the TV, if you don't like the news, how easy is it to just give up, because the team lost a few games, but how much more rewarding is it to know that you have stuck with it all, through the good times and even the bad. Yes those great days when we were going to games at White Hart Lane, Hillsbrough, to name just two, not really the same as going to Histon, but it is still our team and it still needs our support.
Lets continue to give it the support we have and help play our part in getting it to where we want it to go, the world really won't stop, if there was no longer a TUFC, but we know our life's having TUFC in our hearts and sharing all the ups and downs with so many great people who love and follow the club, just like we do, is really not so bad after all.
Have a great year, the furture is bright and yellow.