Using your passion for change
Written 13th July 2025
I hate change. I really do.
I think it stems from being uprooted at 11 years old and moved to a new town 75 miles away. I still find new things scary.
However I try to be flexible and roll with the times because everything is always changing and you can't stop it.
We live in a world moving and changing so rapidly it's scary and intoxicatingly exciting at the same time.
During covid, my county council introduced a booking system for using the dump. It's actually really good. I mean we all humpfed about it a bit at the start as we'd been used to just going whenever we needed to. But for completing a 2 minute booking form online, you can guarantee no queues and therefore can be in and out in no time at all. It's so much better than it used to be as a user of the service.
The county next to me are planning to introduce a dump booking system there now, and people are up in arms about it. It's a regular feature in their local news. Obviously retired people who have all day to sit in the queues at the busy times and just don't like change. They're making a mountain out of a molehill when they could be using that energy moaning about the litter, or the pollution in the sea, or the water shortage or the lack of doctors or the decline of hedgerows. Instead of moaning about something that is a step in the right direction and making things more manageable for all the people who use the dumps.
I'm all for standing up for your rights, but come on, use your wild passion and enthusiasm for the greater good and something bigger than what just affects you please.
From the great passion in us all, change will come.
LFx
