We hope everyone is taking the day to enjoy with their loved ones and mostly, to take this time to get their goals set for 2019 and be ready to rock from next week.
Here at SRG Thai Boxing Gym, because of our close relationship with the indigenous community, there are mixed feelings about this particular day and we pay our due respect to the Elders that have been in this land for many years prior to us, and we feel for them and their decedents for the genocide and all the things they had to endure during this many years of segregation. Speaking to many of them, they feel like not much has changed and was a major surprise to us, that came from Brasil, that only in 1967 Australia include them on its citizenship referendum. They also taught us about the “Mabo Decision” and the “Redfern Speech” in which made us think a lot and kind of left us in disbelief with what Australian/British people did back then.
Australia Day or Invasion Day, however you would like to call it, it’s a Day that most of us have it off work (also get an extra day this year as it falls on a Saturday) and we should use it to try to teach our kids the truth. To have it with our families and loved ones and share the history of this country (even though there aren’t many years of history) the history is on the make now, and in a not so far future from now, we will be the history of the this nation.
Now that we also have had kids and we have been through a little in life, there is a phrase from Bob Marley that keeps on coming to our minds and that we believe would make the biggest difference on the planet we live in. “TELL THE CHILDREN THE TRUTH”
Wishing you all an amazing day, be marry enjoy life and be responsible. See you all at training on Monday 10am. (Don’t forget that is the only class we will have it on Monday). SOOT RAAENG GEERT!