Yesterday was one of those days. You get frustrated because your life revolves around watching someone slowly dying and you know, there is nothing you can do about it. You are helpless in preventing Death from achieving its goal, so when things that you can control, are thrown out of whack, you lash out.
The problem isn’t that people are uncaring, it is that Business is more concerned about the bottom line, than about the people that GIVE them that bottom line. From the consumer who buys their products / services, to those who help sell the products or provide the services.
When those you answer to, are more concerned about money, than people, then why should they care?
They aren’t being paid to do that, and let’s be honest, we ALL have our own headaches to contend with.
Yet I still Believe that WE have the power to change that. I know the concept of One Person, One Vote, seems archaic today, but then, nearly half of us don’t bother to make that choice. WE STAY HOME.
AND THAT IS WHAT HAS LED TO THIS CORPORATE CONTROL OVER OUR VERY LIVES.
Beacon Community Services has some damn good people working for them, but they are being burned out, and it isn’t because the job is hard, or difficult. It is because they CARE. And when you care, it takes a huge emotional toll on you, more so when the people you work for, simply don’t care.
People like Trinity, Tracy, Yvette, Billie, THEY CARE but then we have others like Edna, Rose and many many more, who are there for the paycheque only. They have closed themselves off, for whatever reason. It comes from an operation that simply wants bodies to fill the gaps, unconcerned if they are qualified or not.
When you reach this stage of life, to have to be at home 24/7 watching the person who raised you, slowly dying, as age takes its toll, you realize that all the things she taught you, no longer hold sway.
When I grew up, you could rely on Government for many things. IF a business was mistreating its workers, they would insure it stopped, or was corrected. When you went to buy groceries, you never had to worry about tainted foods, or expired foods, because Government insured that didn’t happen.
No, it wasn’t perfect, there were instances when things slipped through the cracks, but they were rare, not common place. Today FOOD & PRODUCT RECALLS are a daily occurrence. It isn’t that there are just more products, more food being consumed, it is that Government has abdicated its responsibility to the very people who they are supposed to be watching over.
Business is an Entity. Government is elected by People, and is supposed to be responsible to US.
As you sit by, watching a person dying, bit by bit, you see how the erosion of Government Responsibility impacts you more than if you were in your 30′s or 40′s going about your daily life. You see how simple things like buying food becomes a chore, and you wonder, about all those old people, who have no one to subsidize their income, who must manage on what little they have. You see people take advantage of them by rushing in, rushing out, leaving them exhausted and stressed.
Something that just hastens the dying process.