Some people in your life make decisions that confuse or worry you. Their power. What can you do to counteract or deal with the power they exert, controlling your career, life path, manipulating your mind so that things which would seem outrageous or wrong in ever day living are passed, swept under the carpet, justified. Making decisions then putting you on the spot, you’re the one who has to explain what is going on, why money has been given to certain people. The PPE scandal where millions has been laundered, the truth wrapped in a veil. Who do you go to, who do you tell? Our world is dotted with conflict, sometimes all out war but often just a mass of elements that niggle, behaviour that hurts, disrespect. The gym teacher who asks the class for advice rather than understanding the wishes of the minority. Bullying, sneaking up to you, suggesting that you leave, that your work is underwhelming, snide comments. Words with extreme power. Passing by, leaving their mark but untroubling the perpetrator. People just getting away with it in multiple instances. Boris Johnson promoting his memoir, still insisting he did nothing wrong, those Brexit benefits. Saville, Weinstein, Al Fayed; sexual abuse, appearing out of the past as voice by voice the truth emerges when the abuser dies or locked away. People who can now talk the truth, power emerging through each ascending voice. Countries bombing neighbours indiscriminately, justifying actions through the weight of history, previous persecution, a life of being tortured, picked upon, maimed. The school bully never receiving justice, working away untouchable, poking here and there, making epee lunges. Fencing. Darting in and making a few incursions before retreating and waiting for blind eyes to be turned. Their own traumas affecting actions, digging deep into psyche, the past continually impacting on the present, a reset required.
