Expectation
or Don’t Count Your Chickens ©
By
Michael Casey
Expectation,
Hope or even Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch can be a very dangerous
thing. You can end up with egg all over your face, or even getting your face
slapped. You think you’ll win an election, only to have defeat instead, but
only a fool would want to be a Politician in any place anywhere.
Winning
can be a flick of a coin, literally, in Las Vegas or in a tied election. It’s
all a game of Luck, as my brother said Life is a Game of Roulette, he speaks as
an Economics graduate from Cambridge, my other brother was at Oxford, what did
he say, he said try computers and it changed my life. So by following one piece
of advice the whole path of your life can change. Just as one moment of madness
can ruin it, listening to your phone while crossing the road and you end up in
a wheel chair for life.
Exam
results are a moment of great expectations, my daughter aims for all A*s which
is the top grade, in everything, my mother used to say to us it did not matter
we could go and work in Woolworths. As for our blacksmith and steel worker dad
he said, I have no education do what you like but do your best. It brings a
tear to my eye as I share this with you, his Love was strong, as was mum’s, but
to me he was like a brother and a best friend.
When
you plan things, always have a plan B, our Politicians here in UK should have had
a Plan B for Brexit, but they did not bother out of arrogance and it would send
bad vibes or so they thought. They say Eton gives you confidence and it stands you
in good stead whatever you do. Personally most of us could never go to Eton,
though the joke is I went to Eton you know, but only to unblock the drains. It’s
an old Michael Bentine joke but HE is worth a Google or two.
My
own Eton was CPNEC Birmingham, 3 years in a 4 star deluxe business hotel, it
was an Education in itself. There I learnt to expect the unexpected, not to
count any chickens, every day was different but always tiring, 12 hour shifts
walking on marble and never sitting down. So if you want your child to grow and
get loads of confidence make them work at a hotel during those long Eton
holidays. While waiting for those A Level results make them take a gap year
working in a hotel.
You meet thousands of people in the foyer of a hotel, I
think I must have met 100,000 over the 3 years. As for my brother he invented
gap years 40 years ago. He worked at a coal mine in Newbold Vernon for a year
before getting into Cambridge thanks to inverted snobbery and the 4 straight As
did help too.
As
you can see I’m the stupid one, the writer of family, I’ve done a lot of manual
work, but I’ve also observed many many things, so I’ve ended up by accident as
a writer. 30 years and nearly one million words, over 10 books and I’m on the
11th book now.
I have no expectation of ever being recognised as a
Luvly Writer as Clare Moore once said of my writing. I do hope that my
daughters look back and remember the laughter, that’s my only hope, and that’d
be enough for me, I’m not counting any chickens, but once the girls fly the
nest they’ll always have smiles in their hearts.
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