For me, 31st January was another day for the media it was a headline
In the past week or two, I haven’t listened much to the news on TV or Radio. I glance the Metro on the train and pick up the odd headline. Whilst it could be seen at isolationist it has been refreshing to live outside a media world. Of course, there is a need for a media but there is no need for it to dominate our lives and minds.
I knew 31st January 2020 would be the day the United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU) so I wondered would it be on the mouths on people rather than just broadcasting. I mentioned it to one person as I asked him the date when signing a piece of paper, “O yes the day we leave the EU” he replied, “ O yay” and moved on.
On the way home I called in with a guy from the station cafe. He mentioned to me that France was having a special broadcast of the event. He is from Mauritius. He then told me that a customer upset him the previous day by inferring that he would be leaving due to Brexit. I suggested the guy maybe wasn’t fully informed of such matters and was displaying his ignorance.
Apart from the odd person changing their profile to show their face surrounded by the 12 stars of the EU and perhaps another stating that they were having a leaving party it could have been just another day.
I did notice the front pages of the newspapers mostly concerned the matter but other than that and the fireworks I heard at 11 00 pm Brexit came and went.
I was an event today at the London Centre for Spiritual Direction I don’t believe I heard Brexit mentioned anywhere, on public transport or the event. What I did hear was a phrase that touched me, ‘A future that is bigger than the past’. It was said as an alternative to people looking back to a previous period with greater fondness than the present. The phrase is full of such hope in that whatever the challenges are of today they will lead us to something greater than we knew.
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