Friday 8 January 2010

SOLUTIONS

For a problem to be acknowledged, a solution needs to be at hand.

3 comments:

www.wholelifegardening.com said...

I couldn't disagree more. For example, I acknowledge that I can be impatient when working with others. Is there an immediate solution? Not unless you can loan me a magic wand....

Susan Harwood said...

Hello, Wholelifegardening.

Taking your example . . .

Suppose you see a bed in the window of a furniture shop and it makes you realise the problem isn't that you have an impatient nature or that the people you meet are specially annoying but that you aren't getting enough sleep?

The solution of a lovely, cosy, enticing new bed brings it all into focus. The solution holds a mirror to the problem.

In a wider context . . .

Only when proper public transport is provided will people be likely to give up their cars. Then, when drivers find how pleasant air is without car fumes they'll realise how much polution their cars were causing (acknowledge the problem) and be glad to take buses and trains instead.

But the buses and trains (the solution) have to be there first . . . a kind of reverse economics with supply preceeding demand.

What do you reckon?

Thanks for the Honest Scrap Award. I hope you will forgive me if I don't pass it on. I stick to short snappy sentences on Shouting at the Radio. I very much appreciate it, none the less.

Susan

Susan Harwood said...

People who like SHOUTING AT THE RADIO may also like LUCY AND ESTHER TAKE ON THE ELECTION

Susan