Looking Back - My Conclusions.

 

My thoughts, looking back thru 50 years.

I've created quite a few pages here. 
I hope the visitor will have found at least a few points of interest.

All those years ago, joining a completely different work environment to any I had previously experienced, was fantastic.

Aside from earning a living it showcased Life amongst lots of people.

You learned how it was to work alongside men and women of different ages and how we integrated with one another. We learnt to respect those that were older or had more experience and if you showed willing you were likely to receive the same respect in return.

Respect has to be earnt. It is not an automatic entitlement.

That is exactly how I found it in this big enterprise.

Those that have worked as, say, Miners, Agriculture and the Fishing Industry, Shipyard Workers, Steel Workers and the like all have the same experience. 

I know because I have seen it and been told so.

It is a sad affair that this country has lost much of its' key manufacturing capability, no matter what the "Carbon Footprint" may have been assessed at.

Why? Because what we don't (or can't) do here at home means that some other "Place" gets to cash in on our loss.

But, "That's Life!", as the saying goes.

I've had my "Bit" pretty much and I only hope that for those coming of age find a way to pull it all back together for their benefit. For many it looks pretty bleak just now.

There's more to Life than extravagant living and Bling.

Years ago after my Dad passed I was going though his many affects he left behind and, in a very old small notepad, I found a short script he had written as part of his speech when, in 1954, he was made president of Bideford Rotary Club.

(Extract from D.W. Friendship, family archives)

"You can take Life at its face value,

or you can give it a value of your own.

You have a right 

to make anything you can of it".