A time for reflection

Well I have recently had my birthday, and it has been a quiet affair this year, due to my new work shifts and the fact I worked at the weekend, well saturday.

It has been a very eventful year in lots of ways, It is still not time to speak out about the vosa case, as that is an on going thing. I am waiting for the case to be heard, then I will tell the world. The reason I am hanging on is due to the fact I am waiting for the outcome.

Other factors of the year were, family illness, and family illness for friends for some of my friends. So it has been a very worrying time for all of us. This time of year is shadowed by memories of an autrocity, which happened 9 years ago.

Back in 2001, I spent the weekend of my birthday up in Southport and Manchester, where me and a friend spent the weekend riding round on buses and class 101 DMU units, operating in the manchester area. These are now a memory too, as they came out of service in 2004, after nearly 50years service. Upon my return to work events were unfolding in New York. It was mid afternoon, when we heard that the world trade centre had been hit.

This brought 2 buildings down, killing 3000 people, from alsorts of backgrounds, all in the name of religion. From that moment onwards the world changed, for the worse too.

There is a strong prejudice against muslims, most of which were as horrified with the attacks as everyone else. It gave a war mongerer the excuse to invade 2 countries and brought other countries into the conflict in the name of war on terror. At least it gave the conspiracy theorists something new to talk about. New the laughable thing about the whole thing is that during the 1980's the Brits and Americans had armed the said terrorists to fight against the tiranical Iran and Communist Russia, when they invaded Afganistan.

So what has all this done?, well it has caused tensions, between muslims and other religions, We are under watch all the time, as more and more cctv have gone up, so if we fart then the authorities will know about it. All I can say is what goes around comes around. Civil rights are are at threat, all because there might be a terroist, and yes I do understand we cant be complacent. People have predicted a holy war or world war 3 starting very soon, and the reason it would break out is because people want it too. but as they say only time will tell.

So to round off my blog, we live in interesting times. But as the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy say on the cover,"DONT PANIC"