This has been sitting in draft for a day and I’m not sure I can or want to revist it so “Publish Post” it is.

Change.

It’s a recurring theme these days, it seems to crop up in particular when I’m talking to people from back in the day in Dublin. Perhaps it’s natural, it’s maybe a good point of view on how things are now and how things were then. It’s all through tainted glasses I think. Everything that I can look back on then can’t be seen without the past few years adding onto that view too. It’s strange.

It’s sometimes annoying too. Nothing to do with the conversation that lead to this but in another case, it can’t always be about looking back and it perhaps has been too much. Sometimes we need to look at the here and the now and the going forward. The past, the past that we tend to talk about is in many cases so irrelevant to the present, to who we are now, to what we do now and to what we can do now. Sure some of it shaped us either in a good way or as an obstacle to overcome and perhaps where we stand now is an indictment of where we stood then.

At the same time, it’s a common experience and a common thread that can bind us together and give us something to always fall back on during those moments before the late night where the cards go down onto the table. It’s a safety net, and a stepladder at the same time. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but surely it would be better to strive beyond the both of these?

I feel this will be an issue within the next week and as the last time I’m going to try and not let it be but the best intentions and all that.

So there is a new pope, and he’s anti-everything except perhaps Nazis. Hurrah, well done that Catholic church. Ok so the Nazi thing is just a sensational reaction to what does sound to have been a minor and very compulsory role but nevertheless having someone elected to the highest position in such an organisation who lists Hitler Youth on their CV….man oh man. The only thing I see coming from this is a push to the more liberal catholics to move out. It’s a bit like the US elections where the core right wing conservatives dominate at the expense of the rest of the country and indeed world.