salmon on a sunday

 I did not have the best childhood, my parents were a bit too keen on striking their kids it was all stick and not a lot carrot, the carrot was I guess that we were not poor in relation to things like food and clothes we never went without.

Other families are poor but there is a lot more love and support in the family, its hard to know which is the best I guess the ideal way would be to have both.

I was chatting to friend earlier he was taken and put into a children's home for few months due to his mother not being able to cope, his father had left so the 6 children had been brought up by his mother which is a burden on any adult, and historically women struggling more than men I guess this was real poverty that my friend suffereed I was not aware that such poverty for things existed when I was younger 

I did not experience poverty for day to day things but did in relation to emotional support so I have suffered poverty in one way but not the way that is usually thought of thankfully.

It must have been hard for his mother to give up her children and send them to care but I suppose she was doing the best for them. I am not too sure my parents would have done the same I never felt they wanted the best for me which is sad really, a child that feels loved can do better in life than a child that has had all the material things it needed while growing up.  You can't live on love alone and but you can't thriive without love either.

My friend had a good time at the home pretty similiar to what I experienced while going away to college I guess. The phrase that made me think that this friend had experienced poverty was that that he was surprised the cat had salmon to eat in the home where he was only used to having salmon on a sunday. I had a cat but it did not eat salmon but neither was salmon something for special occassion there were always tins in the house and we often had salmon fishcakes to eat, my mother was not a great cook and hated it really but she could make great salmon fishcakes