Sunday, 1 December 2013

In perspective



Once more I was up in time to go to church by Radio 4. By chance the service came from Glasgow. Needless to say the horror of Friday night’s accident, & the helicopter landing on a pub full of people, cast a certain shadow over the service. It is difficult to come to terms with such an event. Even drawing out the good, the efforts of so many people to help the trapped & the injured, it hardly seems to offset the ill.

The Fox commented that he is always deeply suspicious of helicopters. They seem to be involved in so many accidents. I can’t help thinking I can recall so more helicopter incidents than airplane ones. They seem to be result in death so often. Yet these same helicopters are what are used so often for air ambulances, coastguard, police etc.

Still I suppose it does put in perspective our own demise. On Friday we heard our main computer has had its day. It will almost cost as much to repair - without any certainty of much continued longevity - as to buy another. We’re off to the shops to look tomorrow. A computer can easily be replaced unlike a unique life.

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