Helen Pickard

The Only Way is Up!

For a change I’ve been reading a fiction book rather than a self improvement or inspirational book because sometimes you need to relax your mind and find another world to live in for a while to see what you would change in your own world and on the odd occasion it’s good to read fiction because it can emphasise or enhance certain things within a story to make them more dramatic and hard hitting!

Now the book I’ve been reading over the last few days is by Carole Matthews and is called “The only way is up”, I’ve decided to write on this because of its content and story line.

The story is, What do you do when there’s nothing left to lose?

Lily and Laurence Lamont-Jones had it all: lavish holidays in exotic locations, a top private school for their two children and a beautiful home in the Buckinghamshire countryside.

Then Laurence loses his job, and their house and all their belongings are repossessed. With nowhere else to go, the family move into a flea-ridden council house on a notoriously rough estate and start to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. But will Lily’s dream of returning to a world of luxury ever come true – or will she learn that money doesn’t always buy you happiness.

Now it does sound a bit dramatic and it will probably never happen, but that’s where the stinger comes in, it can and does happen, it can happen to you, your friends, your colleagues or anybody for that matter.

Sit back for a moment and think about what you would do if it happened to you?

What do you think your friends would do or think?

What do you think your family would do or think?

And most importantly what would you do and think?

I’m going to leave you with those thought’s and feelings for a day or two and then I will post again with some revelations and thoughts of my own on this subject!