grahamg
Old codger
- Location
- South of Manchester, UK
Anyone reading some of my posts in the last few weeks may have seen mention of a "so called friend" I dont seem to think has much positive in his make up, and who I'd struggle to write a reference for, (if I were a divorce court judge, and you were his wife seeking a petition I'd go straight for the "decree absolute", no need to mess around with a "decree nisi"!).
This morning when I happened to bump into him I was a bit staggered when he did appear to me to show some positive sides to his character, sticking up for me over something, in a quite extreme way as is his want, but nonetheless I appreciated his view that "you have to stand up for yourself in this world".
I think its given me a slightly better insight into his psyche, and maybe I can just see how he's become the awkward person he most certainly is.
On BBC radio five live after midnight an excellent presenter called Duton Adebayo has become a bit of a hero of mine by listening to some quite desperate, hopeless, or lost people, most of us might not give the time of day to perhaps, and they're suffering more especially during these pandemic lockdowns.
Duton came to Britain from Nigeria aged six, lived in a roughish part of London, though must have been marked out as a bit special as he went to a very good school, and qualified as a barrister when he was a young man. He hasn't forgotten his start in life, the hardships etc. as well as the positives, and he made his name I think by representing protest movements back in the 1980s where he came up against those in authority treating people unfairly.
Now this thread isn't about him of course, but it is about those who we might have chosen to write off maybe too quickly, or at least we should have tried a bit harder to se whatever good can be found.
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This morning when I happened to bump into him I was a bit staggered when he did appear to me to show some positive sides to his character, sticking up for me over something, in a quite extreme way as is his want, but nonetheless I appreciated his view that "you have to stand up for yourself in this world".
I think its given me a slightly better insight into his psyche, and maybe I can just see how he's become the awkward person he most certainly is.
On BBC radio five live after midnight an excellent presenter called Duton Adebayo has become a bit of a hero of mine by listening to some quite desperate, hopeless, or lost people, most of us might not give the time of day to perhaps, and they're suffering more especially during these pandemic lockdowns.
Duton came to Britain from Nigeria aged six, lived in a roughish part of London, though must have been marked out as a bit special as he went to a very good school, and qualified as a barrister when he was a young man. He hasn't forgotten his start in life, the hardships etc. as well as the positives, and he made his name I think by representing protest movements back in the 1980s where he came up against those in authority treating people unfairly.
Now this thread isn't about him of course, but it is about those who we might have chosen to write off maybe too quickly, or at least we should have tried a bit harder to se whatever good can be found.
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