I was just about to upload the information on our new feeding scheme when an awful thought hit me; what kind of generation are we creating if we have to feed them as children? Who will they grow up to be if they have literally not learnt to feed themselves? Will they continuously require hand-outs and become resentful and aggressive if this is not received?
I just spent the day facilitating a Get Real Youth Program, I was one of 20 counselors and coaches who took a group of 16yr olds (the entire class year) through an unbelievably exposing process. We showed them that no matter what is happening in their lives they have the choice to either operate from love or from fear. There were 220 girls. Not one of them did not report a household filled with abuse, addiction, neglect or death.
I have been staying in a hotel for the past 3 weeks as I can’t drive, bath or walk. Luckily I can eat and go to the loo alone. Anyway as my room service arrived the oddest realisation hit me: waiters are almost always men and cleaning ladies almost always.. well ladies. When the waiter arrives he must knock at your door to enter the room but the cleaning lady has a master key and after one knock let’s herself in. What does this mean?
As the doctor politely asked me to climb onto the operating table where in a few moments people I had never met before would be slicing into my body, it struck me that our reality is a strange one indeed. Our entire existence is based on a trust that we do not examine to closely or even acknowledge. On the operating table I was placing my very life in stranger’s hands, trusting that they were qualified to operate, trusting that the Anesthetist would bring me back to consciousness. Trusting so many, many things.
