It's always so easy to only see the bad, isn't it...

Well, listen to this....

First of all, Mother Theresa has been dead for 12 years, and she cannot be held responsible for what is happening in her homes today.

I agree that if that is what is happening, it needs to be addressed, but more than that, the nuns need help from around the world to look after the children in the correct way, to be taught nursing properly, social care etc....

When I had Toxicara, back when I was 19, I was in Neasden Eye Hospital for well over a month whilst they tried to work out what I had. In that time I grew very close to all the staff and the children too, whose ward I was in.   But....the discipline amongst the nursing staff was total shite. Some of those nurses should never have been there in the first place, they were damned lazy and I was doing their work for them, caring for the children, feeding those who were unable to sit up, changing nappies etc...or rather, using sanitary pads to do that, from the Ladies' Ward, as there were NO nappies on that ward, and one little toddler, who had just had surgery for congenital cataracts, was left all day long in the same nappy until I went a little nuts over it...and they eventually got some nappies on the ward...and spoke to her mother, who seemed not quite with it, to be honest...certainly not able to care too much for her little girl....

Anyway, I digree. The ward was being run by a Malaysian Sister. Really sweet lassie she was, but utterly hopeless at discipline and orders..and didn't those other nurses know it!

Two weeks later, when the Irish sister came back, that ward was a different place. Everything shone, bed corners were tucked in just so, patients gleamed and all was ticketyboo...She was a natural leader, stood for no crap whatsoever and ANY nurse...or indeed doctor or surgeon, who disobeyed her knew they had stepped over the mark, BIGTIME!

If you have a rotten captain at the helm, then your ship will start to sink...I'm sorry, I don't believe Mother Theresa was a rotten captain, nor that she ran a sinking ship.

Those who've followed her...well, who knows...?

But tell me Dave, WHY do you always choose to try and find the bad side of people? It mystifies me, it really does.

May the true Spirit of Christmas find it's way to you...