More Terror
2005-07-21
My best wishes and respect to everyone who continues to get on with things in the capital.
I don't really know what to say. I'd love to offer useful messages of solidarity, encouragement to get on with your lives, and advice against 'letting them win', but as a person who isn't in any real danger (and by that I mean even compared to the low degree of 'real danger' that you people are in, since I'm in no 'real danger') I find it hard to say any of those things without feeling two-faced, or like I'm going to offend.
See, even that last sentence stands to be taken the wrong way if the reader is wont to.
So as it stands, my thoughts are with the people of London, not because I was concerned the ones I knew might not have survived, as it was a fortnight ago, but because you are the ones who are going to worry about whether it will happen again, and because you are the ones who will carry on in spite of that.
Because that's what must be done.
I don't really know what to say. I'd love to offer useful messages of solidarity, encouragement to get on with your lives, and advice against 'letting them win', but as a person who isn't in any real danger (and by that I mean even compared to the low degree of 'real danger' that you people are in, since I'm in no 'real danger') I find it hard to say any of those things without feeling two-faced, or like I'm going to offend.
See, even that last sentence stands to be taken the wrong way if the reader is wont to.
So as it stands, my thoughts are with the people of London, not because I was concerned the ones I knew might not have survived, as it was a fortnight ago, but because you are the ones who are going to worry about whether it will happen again, and because you are the ones who will carry on in spite of that.
Because that's what must be done.
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