Hope

Another young person has been taken from this world, I have no doubt many will miss Rhys. I did not know this bloke that well, over the past couple of weeks I encountered him at swimming and spoke with him briefly. I was lucky enough to work with him and over the past year and a half, I found him to be a really nice bloke with values and ethics. It's sad to see that many young people are dying this way. It's a bit angering as well, in the sense that if the person that caused his death had values and ethics as strong as Rhys'.

I have a few mates in Geelong and hearing about the issues there is horrifying, having bouncers in the local Mc Donald's to break up fights in the queue. A couple punching on in the street and people walking around them because of fear that both will turn on them if they help. Seriously what in the hell is this world coming to, the Australian spirit is to help our fellow mates and strangers. Now we have to think twice.

Australia is in a state in society where nurses in public hospitals have to reject helping people for their own safety. Police are in a state where they are stretched to fight domestic issues. Welfare another realm, I was at a Men's conference talking about 'mateship' and WW1/WW2. One of the speakers noted the suicide rate after a breakup was astronomically high as opposed to other situations. How do we deal with these issues as a society. I can tell you now I bet politics will have no affect at all. We need something more real.

There is no band-aid solution that will resolve these issues in society. An infer-structure so strong and well defined by its people and not politicians is what will prevail in the future I believe fueled with values. At what cost I don't know, financial costs should not be a factor but life should be the only concern. 

A dream of mine is for a community to build a dynamic infrastructure that builds upon its past experience rather than turf that valuable effort and resource. I had a lecture today on IT Architects which is an area I would like to learn to help apply towards this lifelong goal. Don't get me wrong this type of infrastructure is made by hundreds of people with values and ethics to make it a reality, its not a one man show at all. 

So maybe one day I'll make a tiny difference in the world towards this dream, any change that will help others is one defiantly worth the effort.