The Daily Question
Where were you when you heard
the best news of your life?
Most people can tell you exactly where they were. Standing in a corridor. Sitting on the bottom stair with the phone in their hand. In the car outside, not ready to drive yet because their hands would not stop shaking.
Good news has a way of fixing the place around it. The wallpaper, the weather, who else was in the room. Years later those details are still sharp, long after the ordinary days either side have gone.
It might have been a birth, a letter, an exam result, a yes. It might have been something nobody else would think twice about.
So — where were you when you heard the best news of your life?
This page is not help, and I am not qualified to give it.
If you are struggling, please ring one of these. Both are better at it than anything on the internet, this page included.
This one is on ordinary days. There are five others.