Some people are probably confused by the choice title I have used for this post that comes a day later than usual as my internet crashed. The reason I have chosen this famous line from an Elton John classic is due to the sentimental meaning it has to me in two areas of my life. The first could be easily guessed, it has relation to my family as it was a song that my father (who is still alive may I just mention) played in the car on a number of occasions when I still lived at home. He introduced me to a number of Elton classics but this one was always my favourite and probably because I attached a separate meaning to it regarding my history as a ballet dancer when I was 10. I was quite a dancer according to those who watched me and my technique came naturally.
You see, I loved my dancing as it gave me purpose; it defined me as a person and gave me confidence in being myself. I shared this with my late grandmother to whom I was very close. She supported me in almost every event I danced in (aside from those that were too far for her to drive too) and she had complete faith that I could succeed in this hobby. In fact everyone had faith in this and it seemed pretty much set in stone that ballet would be my future career until my behaviour forced me to move to a far away boarding school where I put on the pounds, leading me to lose my talent. I have always put this occurrence down as one of the few reasons I am where I find myself today, I lost something I held dear to me and thus fell deep down into the dark waters of depression and eventual isolation. Some of you who have read on this far are probably what this post has to do with my messages regarding the care system and inequality whereas to me it is pretty obvious. Regardless of what they might’ve done to enter or whilst within the care system children under the local authority’s care are not bad people. They each have a history, a lot of them traumatised by their experiences and thus suffering through poor or even criminal behaviour themselves whilst receiving little in the way of help to reform. I have a history of fantastic future prospects which were taken from me thus contributing to my current position but luckily for me I still have people standing by me, willing to not judge me. Unfortunately a lot of those in my position do not have this luxury and instead are isolated for their historic difficulties, they want to change but have no way of doing so. It is these people that need the help as they could even be the next CEO of a major international business or the MP your constituency has been awaiting, it is just they cannot fulfil their potential whilst they are locked behind these iron bars that only ourselves have the key for. We need to help them help each other to move forward and become better than they are now. They are worth it so why aren’t we doing this already?
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Barnaby.
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