Tuesday 25 January 2011

In a Mad World Maddie Shows the Way

Bit embarrassing that it's an American bringing guns in to Britain. You have to ask, with friends like these...There we were, taking our shoes and belts off and ditching our bottled water, all in the name of safety. The Americans themselves were particularly keen that the rest of us comply, while they go shooting little girls outside supermarkets. Odd that.

In a crazy world, I'm giving the final word to 15-year-old Maddie Mortimer, who lost her mum to cancer recently. She makes more sense. Writing in The Times today she says:" Nothing is quite the same, everything has a slightly darker shades to it. It doesn't get better. I'm learning to live with it.

"Strangely I have been having moments of complete happiness. I realise you can't be sad all the time, that's not how it works You have to embrace the happy moments, let them linger and not feel guilty that they exist in such sad circumstances."

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