Out of sight, out of mind

At the end of every sentence in these pages there are full stops. They were put there to represent the people that come to an end that we don’t notice much. If you die in a car accident you are the full stop. If you die of something else equally mundane you are another full stop. However, were you to die along with fifty others in a plane crash, a train crash, a fire or more importantly in a novel way you will make the news. I say make the news, you personally are unlikely to get a mention, but the event will. No matter what the cause of death, even very old age, it only gets a lot of attention if you are famous or infamous. Then you can have a red circle on the plate above. I find it all rather crass, all people are valid to me. And by the way the newsworthiness is very much dependant on the nationality of those in peril. Poor citizens have much less significance than the rich ones.

If you take a walk down the high street of your town you see plenty of people out and about. There may be a few in wheelchairs or struggling to get around, but on the whole people seem alive and well. What you don’t see so much, is all the people too ill to leave home or laid up in hospital. It gives a false impression that all things are alright. Many people are once again hidden away, out of sight and out of mind. Whilst traveling we stayed in someone’s house, a bedsit of sorts. It was very nice, they cooked great meals and told us a lot about the area. One evening I took the plates into the kitchen and found that they had a ‘child’, maybe in their early twenties sitting in a wheelchair. Unable to talk properly but with some communication skills of sorts. I don’t think they left the house very often.


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