Life is very short…
Very off-topic blog today, due to a couple of recent events surrounding my club Arsenal. (Mr. Wen that is, Mrs. Wen wants to make it clear she is a Man Utd fan).
Anyone who has read the backpages of a newspaper or watched a sports bulletin on TV since Saturday lunchtime will be aware of the horrific injury to Arsenals’ Eduardo. Within 2 1/2 minutes of kick-off, Taylor of Birmingham City mistimed a tackle on Eduardo and the Arsenal number 9 concequently fractured his left fibula and sustained an open dislocation of his ankle joint in the same leg. I am pleased to report that this is not as bad as was first feared (initial thoughts were his career was over, and the pictures were so distressing that Sky Sports made the decision not to show them) and reports are that he will be running again in 6 months and playing again in 9 months providing all goes to plan. Anyone who has the stomach can search on Youtube for videos/photos, though severe viewer caution is advised — your stomach will be turned. Sky Sports News showed a graphic earlier of the break and then dislocation and although it was a computer graphic it was purely horrific.
Firstly I want to offer my sincere best wishes to Eduardo for a speedy recovery.
The second player I wanted to give a special mention to was Bacary Sagna. It was announced recently against Manchester United that Sagna was unavailable to play due to ‘personal reasons’. It has since come to light that Bacarys’ 28 year old brother Omar had died from a suspected heart-attack.
My sincere condolences to Bacary and his family during this tragic time.
I suppose the reason for this blog is that it really reinforces the message as to how fragile life can be, and how important and cherrished our family and friends are. During serious debt problems, IVA’s, Bankruptcy’s and such, there seems like nothing more to life apart from trying to battle against debt, and I think it is important sometimes to take a step back and to remember how precious life is, tell your nearest and dearest that you love them (yes even Mr & Mrs Torch!!) and remember that debt can be managed one way or another, but life is so very short and (within reason) love and live every minute you have, as you have no idea what may just be round the corner, as Eduardo and Sagna will testify to.
Mr. Wen
