Reflecting

Today presented itself with many reasons to reflect. The alarm clock shrilled out at 5.50am, with the news of the final hours of John Allen Muhammad, the US sniper who shot down 14 people in the Washington area in 2002, killing 10 of them. The report sent shivers down my spine, as details were given of his last hours, up to and including his death by lethal injection. This news was swiftly followed by more outrage about Gordon Brown's spelling mistakes in his heartfelt letter (in my opinion) to the mother of Jamie Janes. I feel for them - they have lost children in awful circumstances, and the pain for both of them will never go away. So my problems now seem insignificant by comparison, on a day where we also pay homage today to those who died in WW1 and remember all those who have fallen in the name of our country. War is not the answer, we should talk more, as Gordon did to Mrs Janes. Despite the "outrage" from the Sun (trash) newspaper, who is gauging it's own war against the government as it swiftly changes it's political allegiance to suit the country's mood - she now appears to have forgiven him. We should talk more, wage war less and be prepared to forgive. Life is too short.