Catching me unawares

So this morning I confess to feeling uninspired. I was really hoping it would be one of those awareness days today - so I could rattle on about how we are supposed to be thinking about how important some random type of … let’s say tree… is to our civilisation, and not to mention how thoroughly crap we all are as a race for endangering it. Alas in my search it appears that today we do not have to be aware of anything. This got me thinking of how, quite selfishly, there is a lot going on in today’s world that perhaps I would rather be unaware of. I would rather be unaware of the crisis in the Middle East, that people seem more prepared to use God as an excuse for war instead of peace, that in Niger famine is rearing its ugly head again, and that in some places in the world women are killed by their families for loving the wrong person. The fact is though that we get nowhere by being unaware, no progress is ever made. So somehow what was going to be a post making light hearted fun at some silly day sort of came out the other way. Let’s save that tree chaps, because then when all is said and done we can say we actually did something.