SACRIFICE
Prompt - Sacrifice : Write about something you've sacrificed doing to do something else or to help another person
X to mark the spot. X to start a revolution. X to change lives. This X, if it does it's job, will change my life. For good. For bad. For ever. My X, joined by dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions of others, can, will, alter my life, your life, the life of the nation. It will bring us independence, a freedom from the creeping fascism of the south, a time of beginnings and hope.
And despair. For there will be casualties. It is the nature of revolution. One of them will be me. The company I work for does almost ninety per cent of it's business with the south. The owner is a unionist. Fanatical you might say. Although his passion for his cause is no more or less than mine for the one he opposes. He has told us to place our X carefully, to think of the consequences for ourselves. If Yes wins he will shut up shop and shove off south. he will not take us with him. As if we'd want to go! So if my X does it's job then I will lose mine. I will face uncertainty, difficult decisions, worry that I can provide for my child.
But it will be temporary. My X is for him, his future, his safety. A little short term inconvenience is a worthwhile give for the take of a better, fairer, society. There will be other jobs. For all those like my boss there will be others rushing in the opposite direction, spurred on by access to the Single Market. There will be people too, bringing their optimism away from the small tyrannies their lives now face.
I will be unemployed. I will be happy. We will all be better off.
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