We need to recruit teenagers and young adults

 

DAY FIFTEEN: Friday 15th January  2021:

Teenagers and young adults are the most important members of our society, it is they who will shape our future and yet their lives right now are being torn apart more than any others.

WE NEED TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS.

Are you a parent of a teenager ?   Are you a grandparent of a teenager or young adult ? PLEASE will you invite them to join our Facebook group – THE SUNSHINE SMILE CREW and each day share our SMILE OF THE DAY.

We have a membership of ninety-four members in The Sunshine Smile Crew. Say we had a membership of five hundred and every day every single person shared a smile. If every one of those five hundred had five hundred friends on facebook that would be 250,000 – a quarter of a million.

When you look at the rubbish some people put up on facebook that is, may I suggest, an indication of sadness. If we had enough people we could fire up happiness big time.

The WAVE OF LOVE flows in two directions, the more you give out the more you receive.


Teenagers and young adults are having their lives ripped to pieces. It may be a small thing but it is a powerful thing – task as many teenagers with SMILING and we can give them something positive in their shattered lives.

So today’s SMILE OF THE DAY: Someday we will look back at this moment, and it will remind us to NEVER take little things for granted.

We need to get that message out to as many people as possible, we need more and more and more members within the SunshineSmile Crew to get the message out, we need teenagers and young adults to SMILE.

Have you, like me, been wondering if we will ever get out of this pandemic ? With new variants coming in to attack us will we ?  Do you trust our government ?  I don’t !  Tardy is an understatement, if the government had acted more quickly from Day One would we be where we are ? Does Boris Johnson know what leadership is ?  NOPE he does not.  He sets the rules then gets on his bike to break them. If not the letter of the law then certainly the spirit of the law.

Seriously I think it is time to have a government of national unity. I want to be a part of that government, I want to be Minister For Smiles. I want in my team thousands and thousands of teenagers and young adults.

Let’s take a break for a moment and check out the regular feature ON THIS DAY.

15th January 1973: President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive in North Vietnam. That was a good day !

15th January 2001: Wikipedia goes on-line. I use it every day.

15th January 2009: US Airways Flight 149 ditches safely in the Husdson River saving the lives of all 155 people on board. I remember that.

15th January 2019: Theresa May’s government suffers the biggest government defeat in modern times. Another failing prime minister.

Loads of people were born on this date in history but I’ve never heard of any of them. HOWEVER

15th January 1972 Daisy Ashford the author died aged 91 years of age. Now I know who she was, I am not the first Ashford to write stories.

15th January 1994 Singer Harry Nilsson, born 1941, died. Great music.

Daisy Ashford was not a prolific writer like her descendent, Yours Truly. So far this year, two weeks into the year, I have written 179,997 words with 1,889 yesterday. That’s a bit less than my average so far in 2021.  Need to step up things today.

Today I am going to get stuck into my story BY THE PRICKING OF MY THUMBS.  I have a lot of ideas ready to wrap into the story.

Yesterday I was working on a collection of our quiz sheets to send to Flowers Care Home and start regular weekly letters for residents and care staff. These quiz sheets as I write them will be going into the book WHO NEEDS A PUB TO HAVE A QUIZ. For the week after, week beginning Monday 25th January I would like to send a series of quiz sheets which I will call DECADES. One for each 1940’s, The Rock And Roll 1950’s, The Swinging 60’s, Disco 70’s, Retro 80’s and Naughty 90’s.Six quiz sheets, each with 30 questions = 180 questions. For the pub quiz book I want to have one thousand questions.

I am trying to encourage people as they put their heads on their pillows at night to spend a moment thinking of those who lost their lived through the pandemic, to send love to their families and all who cared for them. Yesterday there were 47,525 new cases, that is a serious and incomprehensible number. The media could not publish the number of deaths as their counting system failed. I had to lay my head on the pillow not knowing how many losses there were. This morning it turns out there were 1,564. I may be a prolific writer but I can not put into words the sadness surrounding just a single family in the list. More than TWO MILLION people have now died from china virus.

There is now a World Health Organisation team in China investigating the origin of the virus ?  What will they find ? Will we ever know ?

The world needs teenagers and young adults to rebuild our world. We need teenagers and young adults to be more effective than our failing government. We need teenagers and young adults to show leadership. We need teenagers and young adults to join The Sunshine Smile Crew.

SMILE OF THE DAY: Someday we will look back at this moment, and it will remind us to NEVER take little things for granted.

Please help recruit new members to help spread the smiles.

Speak again tomorrow

Dave



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