Well it is.
There are plenty of websites which seem designed to ‘break the bad news gently’, but many of these ‘over do’ it and make it seem like a minor issue.
Putting too much attention on ‘not upsetting the poor dears’ is not doing diabetics any favours.
So, I welcome anything that offers a different model – in this case ‘Diabetes the Silent Killer‘, which takes a more ‘in yer face’ attitude.
I mean people like Tracy Emin and Damian Hirst
Why?
When I was about 12 or 13, I used to enjoy ‘trying to be different’ – as did most of my friends. During the most of our teen years we enjoyed twisting words and ideas and generally trying to be wierd and different.
Like most young people, we thought we were the first people ever to think ’sideways’ and spot hypocrisy and idiocy in the world in general.
Playing childish games with high-school level philosophy was fun then.
Hopefully most of us have grown up and now realise that, entertaining as it may be, it isn’t clever and it isn’t original.
Which makes it uneccesary.
Quote from Tracy Emin:
Hi world
Finally got my blog sorted out.
Now I can start spouting off about life, the universe and everything as originally intended.
I am not sure where this will go, its part diary, part soapbox, part memory pad, I guess.
So, a little about me
I am diabetic, 41 years old and work as a cook in the canteen of one of our local companies up here in Canada (hey, they pay me crap, they ain’t getting a free name check!)
I plan on using my blog to talk about:
I’d say ‘watch this space’ but I always avoid cliches like the plague
