The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker

Monday, 21 November 2016

Drugs Addiction

Drugs Addiction ©

By Michael Casey

I’ve got out of bed, its 1.am. on a Sunday night into Monday morning, everybody including Totoro the cat is asleep upstairs. I was screaming in pain for a while then I decided to come down and take some pain killers, and I thought I may as well write something while I wait for the pain killers, Paracetamol, to kick in. It also takes your mind off the pain, it distracts you, as does watching the tv or something on the internet, take your pick.

Yesterday on the BBC we had a 30 min documentary explaining the plague of drugs in the USA, one million addicts, there was even a doctor or MD as you call them over there, and he got addicted to prescription pain killers before moving on to the nasty stuff. One million addicts, it showed some from the Rust Belt, I’m amazed they had the energy to go out and vote Trump, they were so hazed over.

I have pain killers for my Arthur as I call my Arthritis, and for my heart, 2 years on and I still get lots of pain at random intervals. Some sharp heart pain, or just above my heart is still not properly explained, it feels like I’m in a knife fight, like Trump planning his cabinet. But I’ve been told it’s not my heart. As for my Arthritis or Arthur if I tried to do the Twist, ask your dad what the Twist was, then I’d rock the boat or rather my spine and I’d be screaming. The irony was that just before my unplanned quadruple heart bypass, I had a load of investigations for my Arthur and in the end a Chinese doctor at the hospital reckoned I may need a back operation.

Now why am I repeating all this? To let you know that I’m not just an airy fairy intellectual theorising about Pain, I know I’m still suffering from it. So I know in some small what way all these Drug addicts are going through. I also know from my own life experience, what a silly expression, life experience, if you excuse my French, I’ve had Shit on my life too. So I can bear witness to what these addicts are going through. And NO I’ve never used any substances, I want to keep my Imagination alive. But I have seen Alcoholics at close hand, all our lodgers were alcoholics, one even begged for a pound for a pint from my dad when he was in hospital in his very sick bed.

The total sadness of the situation, sell their body or soul to get another fix of drugs. Pain of the Soul is more painful than physical pain, more painful than what has woken me up. I know that oh so much from my own life, I am an observer too, so you can imagine.

I keep a record of how many painkillers I take because you can overdose so very easily. But if we imagine just how low people go, as shown on the BBC documentary last night, just for a fix that leads to oblivion and the death of the very soul itself.

Today on the BBC website we have an image of an all American Boy, who is now a drugs addict, all barriers have been blown down. It’s no longer the wrong side of the tracks people who are addicts, frankly it’s everybody. It could happen to you, yes you in your fancy suit reading this, you with you Gucci bag and you high fashion clothes and your expensive haircut.

It really is such a waste of lives and talent, these people these Souls are the lost generation, or even generations. Perhaps we don’t accept pain any more, we must have a Pill. Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor his dear friend had addictions to pain killer. My mother used to keep her pain killers over the pantry door on a ledge, I can remember her screaming “JeeCus” and then asking me to bring some to her, but otherwise she bore the pain, she bore so much pain you would never believe it.

From her I inherited Arthritis, and from my dad I got my Heart. When I was having tests prior to my bypass I was in the bed next to where my dad had been 19 years previously, his bed had been removed to make space. So you could say History repeats itself. So what is to be done to help with this plague of addiction in the USA, 5% of the world’s population and they use 90% of the world’s drug supply?

I don’t have any answers Mr Trump says build a wall. How do you heal a soul, how do you encourage people to avoid drugs when they are so cheap? I do know in the 60s we were all inspired with Nasa going to the Moon, and the Music, now all we have is Simon Cowell. Now we are all cynical, how do return us to our lost Hippy Innocence, to the Monkees and Beach Boys, the Man from Uncle and the original Star Trek times.

There is not an easy answer, but I do know that broken spirits are the hardest to heal, but how many times do we forgive, 77 x 7, and sometimes the answers are blowing in the wind. All we have to do is put our lips together and whistle, if we cannot pray we can at least whistle our favourite song, for the Lord is Music, and if we whistle he will pour his song into us.

its 2am now I'll go back to bed my pain has lessened

Friday, 18 November 2016

Behind the Face

Behind the Face ©

By Michael Casey

Well the USA election is over now we’ll have the governing pantomime, everybody wanting to get the most of the 4 years Trump will be there, we all wish him well as we need a strong and kind USA. Now the election has thrown up a few questions. Such as who wears the most makeup Hillary or Donald, and who really really wanted the job the most. The election could also have been called a load of bollocks, as we say in England.

Was it Trump’s bollocks or Bill’s which was the main topic of conversation, and did we hear any policies? Now the real work begins, we have already learnt that The Donald likes his bling, but when you are that rich I suppose you flaunt it. Which brings me to the question most are thinking about, will he wear his baseball cap when he is in office, does he wear it in bed? Or will he have a new crew cut to make him look more dynamic.

But seriously folks, what is behind anybody’s face, why do we present such and such an image? I used to work in a computer room for 21 years, we became part of ACNielsen, now once we had a visitation from a European boss an American, and guess what, he had a Mickey Mouse watch. Obviously I spotted it and obviously I asked him why, I am the child from the Emperor’s New Clothes after all.

The thing was his wife wanted him to stay grounded so he had the Mickey Mouse watch. If anybody wants to give me a watch a Cartier Diamond Bleu Automatic that would be very nice, hang on I just saw Donald Trump hang-gliding past my window. You can read about the Donald hang-gliding on Facebook news pages.

Why does MZ always appear to be an adolescent child who won’t listen. News is supposed to be fact Mark, not BS that 14 year olds contest is Truth in the playground. Speaking as a news junkie with 50 years experience PLEASE CHECK THE FACTS FROM 2 OR 3 SOURCES before you give it space in cyberspace.

Sorry I just had to say that, there is so much “news” that is just lies, and Facebook has a Moral Responsibility to FACT CHECK, you would not publish a science text book with MC=4C in it would you? How often does your Chinese wife slap you Mark IF you are like that at home. It was in the Facebook News Feed, so it must be true, you are not the national Enquirer. And by the way Mark, my Chinese wife would hit me with the wok if I didn’t fact check, so please stop acting like a 14 year old and grow up!

Why does Michael Casey, yes that’s me if you didn’t look at the top of the page, why does he tend to write comedy, or what he thinks is comedy? He must have had such an easy life, and having such a pretty family. In actual fact 20 years ago both my parents nearly died in the space of 8 weeks. My mother did die and dad nearly died 8 weeks later. We even picked the hymns for his funeral, he was in hospital for 12 weeks, and we fully expected him to die soon after he left hospital. I visited him every single day for 3 years and then one day I met my Shanghai wife. It’s all in Padre Pio and Me which is on the Internet.

So now if you didn’t know that you see me in a different light, I do look better in the dark, as you don’t see all my faults in the dark. So it goes to prove that you need to dig deeper and find out more, 360degrees shows you more of a person and improves your decision making with regard to that person. I’m not suggesting we should all be naked and that way get to know each other , Biblically or not biblically. I am saying look past the makeup.

Look at the images of Hillary post Election, now she looks very mumsy, and would not have had any chance in USA. Over here we are not as fickle, we had some very good MPs, Senator is the nearest comparison, our MPs could be as ugly as F, F , Facebook News item. Anyway just ugly badly dressed with spots and still get elected, why because we are interested in what they SAY, not if they are wearing Tom Ford or LV.

A face tells a story, each line, each wrinkle gives character, so when makeup and fashion hides all this then you are not seeing the real person. You are looking at Christmas presents all magnificently wrapped, so you do not know what is inside. What is the real Politician or Plumber or Cleaning Lady inside the package. Or as with Easter Eggs, so much packaging and then the disappointment when it’s NOT Cadburys chocolate inside, the Cadbury factory is 2 miles away from where I’m talking.

So you can see why it’s so important to know the person behind the face, the real person, and NOT the manufacture image. It’s also important not to lie on your CV, if you run a football team, or soccer as you call it in USA, you should at least know what the offside rule is and there are no Time Outs either.

And if you say it’s on your Facebook it better be because when Mark Zuckerberg checks you out before employing you for his news service, and he finds out Flower Arranging is your true love and not football, then you won’t get a job. Though he might just employ you as you would be perfect for his news service, economical with the truth or even no truth at all. Well Mark if ever you read this I really am available to write for you, and if I tell my Shanghai wife that, she would not believe me and just hit me with the wok.

Winter is coming cuddle up with a book

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I'll write something new later today, I could just watch daytime tv all day instead I write, I can hear you all say will somebody pass him the remote control and a Sky movies subscription. You are so cruel and its so cold my tears are turning to ice.