Daily Archives: February 20, 2009

How would YOU spend your last weeks/months on earth…?

Posted by Wendy on February 20, 2009 No comments

Just reading the way certain members of the public are reacting to Jade Goody’s public battle with cancer is enough to make you wonder just how do some people manage to be so bloody miserable. The answer of course is that they have yet to discover their own date with destiny and experience a walk in Jade’s shoes.

Smugness makes it so easy to point the finger and condemn dosen’t it…

Jade, at the age of 27, was expecting naturally to be there for her two young sons as they looked forward to Xmas this year. She expected to see them finish primary school, then high school and then maybe go on to university.

She expected to see them get jobs, marry and have children of their own. We all do when we have children, none of us give a minutes thought to the fact that there is a day and time with our name on it that will be our final day and time on this earth. And we all have one of course. The only difference between you, me and Jade is that she has an idea of when her day will be.

With me it could be, next year next week…or tomorrow – who knows?

I have five children and I always thought that God could do whatever he wanted to with me so long as he allowed me enough time to see each of my children grow up. So far so good!

Jade has at best 2 months – 8 weeks – to be the Mum to her little boys that she would have been over the next 70-odd years. Just think about that; she has to get in as much love and time with them that will ensure they carry her with them right through the rest of their lives and she has 8 weeks to do it in. She has to cram in a lifetime of mothering into just a few short weeks.

I cannot imagine what it must be like to have to face such a thing. Jade is doing whatever she can while her strength lasts in order to ensure her little boys have everything that she would have given them had she been given the decades she will lose. Every penny she makes out of her illness will go into a trust account for her sons so that they will have the life and education she herself never had as a neglected child. I say good on her and damn you to all the critics who are so sanctimoniously deriding her efforts at this time.

There are many people who are so into their careers that they selfishly deny their families their time; they deny themselves the joy of children and family life in order to amass their personal fortune. There are also people who work non-stop and all hours to give their children the very best of everything they can give them – I can certainly relate to that. Those people, the latter, you have to admire.

Admire Jade because she is one of the latter; she is working her hardest to secure her children’s future, one that she will not be around to share. The only difference is that she has a very short time to do it and she has only her illness as the means for achieving it.

Only a parent would really understand.

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Comedian delivers ‘punchline’ to mobile phone user in the audience

Posted by Wendy on February 20, 2009 No comments

I had to laugh the other day when I read about one particular performer who had had enough of mobile phone users in the audience. I have encountered them myself in the past and their sheer ignorance is just astounding. I was playing with an orchestra and during a moment of piano a silly ringtone rang out loud and clear from the centre of the auditorium. The owner of the phone cut it darn short but I shall never forget the expression on our conductors face – maybe it is lucky the idiot with the phone was well out of grabbing range at the time…

But don’t you just hate it when people ignore blatantly the signs which tell you to switch off the phone as you enter a cinema or concert hall…there is always one twerp who just ‘forgot’ or who just simply refused to do so.

A comedian performing in the UK just recently did what most of us would feel like doing when he noticed an audience member texting away during his act…he stopped, approached the rude individual and smashed his phone to the floor. YES !!

Now, the comic has stated he was under the impression that the person was filming his performance surrepticiously on his phone and was naturally concerned his material was being recorded for plagiarism purposes. My Dad was a professional comedian and to be honest most of them pinch each others jokes and monologues – these days however we have the phenomenen of YouTube where your act can be filmed and then posted on that site. You don’t get performance fees and others can steal what you do – people can view your act for free. Not very lucrative for the performer eh?

It turned out that the guy was only texting a friend and not filming the comic’s act, but all the same, if he had heeded the ‘switch off all mobile phones’ sign which definitely would have been displayed outside the venue he would not have lost his phone in the end.

But I have to admit – the comic certainly spoke for me when he did it.

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