The World seems completely f**ked

One good thing about working in the holiday industry is that you tend to see people at their best. Yes, there are the occasional moany w**kers who will find something to complain about, but generally everyone is relaxed away from home, and they're looking to enjoy themselves, and they appreciate your efforts in trying to help them do that. And another good thing is that you get so busy and so involved in that trade that it is possible to completely shut out what is going on beyond the walls of the holiday centres; especially when you have young children who take up what little spare time away from work you do have. The outside world fails to penetrate your thought-space. You become oblivious to reality. It's an ineffective issue, hovering on the periphery of your life.
So now we're not so busy, that 'real' stuff has had a chance to come crashing through the walls of my existence, and it's horrible. I haven't deliberately gone out of my way to look at news sites or catch up with the global goings-on in the past few days, but it's impossible to ignore indefinitely, and once you open the door a crack and let a bit of it in, it seems to gain in strength and force its way into your head. And the more I've looked at, the more it has made me despair. You've got Russia and Ukraine invading each other, half the Middle East going up in smoke, and a situation in America where - as far as I can tell - no-one seems to be in charge. If Joe Biden is no longer fit to serve, and Kamala Harris is out and about on the election trail, who exactly is making the day-to-day decisions? I know people would tell me it's not my concern, but this is America we're talking about, and I really do think (and I think I've posted about this before) that what happens in Washington affects the UK as much as what happens in Westminster, and so even though we don't live there, it will have a huge impact on how things are here in Britain. And it just seems so chaotic.
And the more you look around, the more this seems to be pervasive. There doesn't seem to be one part of the world right now where things are going well.
I've never been one for burying my head in the sand, but in this current state of tribalistic, jingoistic, post-Covid, pre-pandemic, economically-ruined, divisive, leaderless worldwide maelstrom, maybe it's the best idea!

And now I've got that out of my system, I'll try and be funnier tomorrow. The last thing you need right now is yet another depressing online read!

RC 5-9-24