An antidote to the nonsense
I have seen the
cr*p spouted about Sterling recently and it greatly upset me.
I too happen to have an exclusive about the ‘blinging’ Sterling family – Raheem’s mum is a nurse at my Grandad’s old age home in north-west London and has been looking after him and a floor of similarly bedridden and incontinent 90-year-olds for years.
You can imagine that any job like this takes immense courage, dedication, patience and kindness. Raheem’s mum has continued to do jobs most of us dread, despite Raheem’s immense wealth and success. She is dedicated to those under her care at the home and ensures that the residents (some of whom are Holocaust survivors) live out their final years in dignity and comfort.
It amazes all of us that she works long hours wiping up, feeding and cleaning old people, beside the fact that she and generations of her family will never need to work again. Perhaps none are more amazed than my Gran, who has developed a bit of an obsession about Raheem, cutting out the positive articles about him in the paper and giving them to his mum who then passes them onto Raheem. Raheem was touched by this and sent my Gran a thank you letter which she treasures. This a 90-year-old lady who had an ace WWII fighter pilot brother. When my family visit Gran, barely a visit goes by without mention of Raheem.
I just thought I would write in to add a counter voice to usual sh*te and distortion in the media, now desperate for scapegoats in the England squad. Hopefully this story can relate with the good readers of F365 about the reality most of us live in – where people just try to get on with their lives, do the best they can as human beings, and make other people a bit happier if they can manage it.
Thank you.
Ryan ‘Shout out to the COYS whatsapp group’ Jacobson
