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Strike a light

6/6/2017

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​Sometimes, in fact perhaps more than sometimes of late, I find myself wondering what the hell is going on with the world. 
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On Saturday, I published an indulgent little post about a lamp I had just bought. In a moment of pleasure about a “win”, I took to my keyboard, not to moan and groan (which I’ll admit is not altogether uncommon for me) but instead to celebrate in a small, harmless and slightly silly way.

I didn’t get around to promoting my post until the Sunday morning.  And then I caught up with the news!
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Much to my distress, another UK terror event was reported. London again, and so soon after Manchester. 

Then to compound things further, I opened an email from a friend of mine to find out the dreadful news that he and his wife had lost their first baby. 

Needless to say, but I will anyway, the world suddenly felt a bit shit. 

Feeling despondent, I wondered if I should go back on to Facebook/Twitter and apologise for my earlier “happy” post or just take it down from my site. Friends of mine were already preaching “war” and a piece about a lamp felt a bit crass in comparison.

But then I reflected for a while. I wondered whether I should write about my feelings on this latest terrorist atrocity, or comment on the direction of travel for our national security. In the end I just didn’t know what value I could add, or difference I could make. That unfortunately was rather like my email response to my friend – no words would help him and his wife with their grief.  But I wanted them to know that I was thinking of them and so wrote the best thing that I could in the circumstances (whilst desperately hoping that wouldn’t be perceived as crass).

I carried on ruminating - my earlier post about a lamp was perhaps a metaphorical light in all the doom and gloom. Shouldn’t we all celebrate the things we can instead of worrying about all the things we can’t affect?  Shouldn’t we all make the most of what we have while we have it? 

Or should I feel repentant?

​So to be on the safe side, if I inadvertently upset any of my regular visitors by posting something light hearted when, given everything else going on, it was inappropriate, then I apologise. 

But I can’t help that feel that if these terrorist-scumbag-nutter-bastards did get me changing my posting behaviour, or worse, dedicating my website real estate to them, in some way they’d have achieved a bit more coverage and destruction and that could be taken as a win.

I am not having that! 

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