Swine flu...or just common flu?

I suspect out of all this swine flu business it might just be the normal flu making its rounds. Like it does every year, only this time its a bit stronger. Scientists even say that the flu virus gets stronger as time passes. Ive read articles of it being around as early as WWI so it is capable of dyeing down, but just this time its flaring up again. Just let time go by and i suspect this will pass. Then we can start something else that's 'dangerous' to our health.
Why don't we just look after ourselves anyways? We all know whats good for us and whats bad for us and that looking after yourself your more capable of fighting of disease. Henry the 8Th had malaria, varicose ulcers, possible brain damage, and suffered from migraines after a smack to the front of his head, apparently he had syphilis as well, and to top it all off, diabetes. In the end everything just ravishing his unhealthy body, but my point is in the days when medicine was leaches, Henry lived with multiple infections, but he was a fit active young man, and only started getting ill when he stopped moving and couldn't play anymore. An that's my point we care more about the cure, why don't we fix the cause?

Thinking of the living

I was reading this book and a certain quote really stuck in my head. When people die, either naturally or of a disease, when they finally go and leave this world, and this is where the quote made me think "We grieve for the living," and it does seem true to me.
I thought back to when my grandad who died a couple of years ago of cancer (due to smoking) we all felt terrible for my grandad but ultimately i was thinking of my gran, how was she coping? I don't know what ide gain by writing this but ultimately that maybe its true. The fact it was such a small simple sentence made the impact on me so much greater, something so simple can easily never be said cos its to simple people haven't thought about it. Very rairley does anything stick in my head, and the fact that this did made it special. Also Ive always just assumed we grieve and its for the dead. If i think, i wasn't, yes its sad there gone, but there gone, there free now. My gran is still here and really i felt sad for her. The fact her life changed so dramatically. I wonder if other people realise that in fact they were grieving for the living without noticing it as well. I certainly was.

Easter Vs Christmas

I'm not a Christian and i don't know much about the meaning of Easter, except that perhaps Jesus came back to life. Christmas is the story of Jesus being born. Both kinda just....false. I believe that there is something higher than us all, something spiritual. Not aliens but something. Now though both have kinda lost most of there meaning in a flurry of money and chocolate. Easter i think has almost entirely lost its meaning. Its this random holiday that means we get stuffed on chocolate, mums try and stick to there diets and we get a nice wee holiday for a couple of weeks. Not to do anything like remember Christ coming back to life, but mostly to stay up late and then sleep in the next day. Christmas is rife with give give give and take take take. It seems. It feels special though. Its that time if you have ignored someone for so long then would be a good time to push differences aside and reunite. Family have time to come together again, and gran has a chance to embarrass everyone and have a good knees up on a couple cheerys. Somehow it feels cosy and theres a twinkle in every ones eyes. Its a time to think of the upcoming year and pro mice yourself a new start. Something new to focus on. Christian or not its special, if not for religious reasons then for the reason you get to see people you haven't for years, its a time to set things aside and take stock, and just enjoy being off and being thankful. Christmas trumps Easter.

ITS A CON!!!

Who gets paid up to £30 a hour, doesn't do anything, can get as much money out of you as they please and all in all you accept it? you take it like a beeeatch! DRIVING INSTRUCTORS! and everything tailing of from them. The theory tests, the practical tests! they all want money...and loads of it. For what? nothing it feels like. They fail you for ANYTHING these days. It was never this hard to get your ass into a car before. All i hear is how easy it was for people 'back then' to pass there test. Prices have went up as well. How are we meant to pay for all this? An the trouble isn't over when you pass...oh no!...you got to get the car first, get the insurance, get the tax, get the m.o.t, heaven forbid there should be anything actually wrong with your car. More money. Will this list ever end? No! cos there's rises in petrol prices. People will laterally have to live in there cars at this rate. They will be worth more than your house and children.
Perhaps we should all go back to walking. Obesity was scarce in the 60's and 70's, depression was decreased, pollution wasn't as harsh and over all there was less road accidents, obviously. Maybe we should all go back to walking and public transport. Life would would be tranquil again. I'm not saying it wasn't hard back then but the stupid little minuscule rule that have been imposed today really aren't necessary and i think, personally, its all for the money and that's shameful!