Happily Diverted

Sometimes on this journey we call life things happen that we don’t expect or can’t explain, but they happen. It seems a lot of the time these surprises are scary and can be harmful but there do come occasions where the surprises can shock us back into reality. They say that hiccups can be cured by a scare. We don’t aim to explain why this is the case or even to argue that this IS the case because it might not be, but we just agree with it, go along with it, because it costs nothing to do so. When you’re on a journey and you get diverted sometimes the diversion can be helpful, sometimes it ends up being the best option. We have to wonder, is something like a diversion as bad as it sounds?

When you hear the word, you assume a time consuming journey, problems, traffic, and confused people all around. But is this the case? Sometimes diversions are a hassle, but they can only be a problem if we let them. Diversions can help us take in more experience, better judgements, and help us see more of the world we know so little about. Diversions are like the little bit knowledge we wish we had but never knew how to get it. They give us new opportunities, because simple people like us stick to simple routines, the same way to work, the same way to school, the roads we use all the time because we know no other way. But getting lost can sometimes make us realise where we are.

In this weeks big news, where the government has chosen to blow it’s budget beyond all recognition and double national debt to get us out of recession quickly it makes me wonder what can be so bad. In one of my first posts I wrote that a recession probably isn’t that bad at all, we all need to hit rock bottom so we can bounce back. Often its best to let our emotions contract and become a recession; and become a depression, so that we can realise what happiness is. If we were happy all the time we would start to lose confidence in what happiness was. Just like the economy works in peaks and troughs, booms and busts, we work that way too. Because without them we wouldn’t know who we were. And for Gordon Brown to have suggested it could be abolished, well that just makes no sense at all.

But aren’t these government measures just diversion tactics, remember an election is due soon. We cannot tell the result of this diversion, its too early to know, but wherever we end up, however big the gamble we play, however new the gamble is, we know one thing, that we have a destination. But that’s the other problem, we don’t know where we’re going.

When we hear the announcement that the bus is being diverted we hear the many moans and groans of our fellow passengers, and hell, we even give a go ourselves sometimes. But the trick is to know where you’re going, without that you’re just a lost soul. If we play our cards right and ride out the diversion we may end up getting home faster than before. And that’s not that bad at all.

For the past couple of months, maybe even since the second ever post I made, this blog has been a session of depression in my life. Its been a long one, its been hard, and has caused many problems along the way. Issues have arisen, people have come and gone, I’ve been back and forth, changes have been made, and delays have been caused. But. Where there occurs a recession, there occurs hope at the end of it. In all my previous posts hope has been a supporting pillar in the centre of them, that one day things may change. Who knew that all it would take was a simple diversion to make me smile unconditionally. Who realised that having it all isn’t material at all, because sometimes all we need is a good sleep, a good dream and at the end of it we awake a new person, a new day, a new life.

Today, is that day.


Thankyou for listening.