the day after

[skylarking]

The news is full of stories of courage in adversity, people helping the stranger next to them, walking into hospitals and offering their help, giving blood, cabbies filling their cars with stranded travellers and taking them home. And the general feeling seems to be; 'We will not be intimidated' people are going back to work and getting on with their lives.

I'm not a patriotic person really but it has made me proud to be British.

indigo_blind and I were talking about this last night. London is a city that survived the Blitz and then the IRA bombing campaign of the early 80's. We're British; we're determined, tea drinking, resourceful and slightly mad. Our cultural heritage is full of people like my great grandmother who stood in the back garden waving her fist and the German planes as they flew overhead shouting "You come down here you buggers, I'll give you what for!"

What has been proved to me is not how the world is frightened and divided by terrorism, but how unified we are and how much empathy and compassion is shared between different countries and cultures.

I suppose what we need to try and do now is convince our countries leaders about our global community.

This is brilliant
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I've just watched Top of the Pops. Oh dear. The Backstreet Boys on it and they really weren't very good (does anyone else look at their comeback and think 'Face the Music'?), neither was anyone else.

Never mind terrorism, I think crap chart music is the real threat to civilised society. :P



Thought of the day.

Life is too short to worry about getting grass stains on your jeans.

Comments

[zahz87.livejournal.com]

We're British; we're determined, tea drinking, resourceful and slightly mad. Our cultural heritage is full of people like my great grandmother who stood in the back garden waving her fist and the German planes as they flew overhead shouting "You come down here you buggers, I'll give you what for!"

What has been proved to me is not how the world is frightened and divided by terrorism, but how unified we are and how much empathy and compassion is shared between different countries and cultures.

It's what i've been trying to say but everytime i try and express that i just end up sounding like some unemotional twat lol. I don't mean to be but, you've managed to put it a little more elequently then i could ever.

[zahz87.livejournal.com]

LOL!! Also the icon you have i was just about to use damn it!!

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

I love my icon. :)

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

Thank you *squishes*

It is difficut to express isn't it? It's not 'I'm don't care' it's more like 'I will not let this defeat me'

[zahz87.livejournal.com]

I love those quotes and it is true we do use sarcasm as a defence i mean it's not a bad thing. It's just shit happens and you move on.

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

we do use sarcasm as a defence i mean it's not a bad thing.

Damn right! Sarcasm is an art form :)

[indigo-blind.livejournal.com]

OMFG, icon love.

Tea dammit.

[light-the-sky76.livejournal.com]

It's brilliant isn't it?!?!

I found it at the link in my post

[theshapeshifter.livejournal.com]

I love the story about your great-grandmother, that's awesome!

[noveltyspoons.livejournal.com]

Agreed! Your Great Grammy sounds like my kind of Grammy!