The Anonymous Widower

Mo Farah

Mo Farah is another who delights me and brings a smile to my face.

Over the years, I’ve done business on telephone billing systems with quite a few immigrants of Somali origin. I’ve never had a problem and those that I dealt with were a pleasure with whom to do business. They all seemed to work hard to do the best for themselves and their families. We even put in a joint bid for the billing system for a Somali telephone service, based on redundant analogue mobile phone kit.

Mo was born in Somalia and by hard work, has become our best male middle-distance runner for several decades.  Let’s hope he gets a medal in London 2012! I sometimes think, I could have been a good club runner, but I didn’t have the dedication and I was an undiagnosed coeliac.

So why is it, that the Somalis I’ve met and people like Mo  are a credit to their homeland, but the country continues to be a total basket-case, with lots of death and piracy?

June 19, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Sport, World | Athletics, Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Phones, Somalia