Enjoying feeling your age
07/11/07 21:10 While
I was media training...
Media training at a PR company today and I was
reminded I was getting older - but for once I didn't
mind.
We were discussing the old, old story that happened when the Guardian misheard singer Patti Boulaye offering her support for the Conservatives. She said it was good that young people were in favour of a party; the paper reported that she was speaking in favour of apartheid.
It's a long-dead issue. The thing that appealed to me most, though, was one of the younger trainees having to ask what apartheid actually was. Half of me said, oh no, am I that old? The other half was actually quite pleased - it may be a sign of age, and we shouldn't ignore the lessons of history, but the further away that pernicious regime and its policies gets, the better.
We were discussing the old, old story that happened when the Guardian misheard singer Patti Boulaye offering her support for the Conservatives. She said it was good that young people were in favour of a party; the paper reported that she was speaking in favour of apartheid.
It's a long-dead issue. The thing that appealed to me most, though, was one of the younger trainees having to ask what apartheid actually was. Half of me said, oh no, am I that old? The other half was actually quite pleased - it may be a sign of age, and we shouldn't ignore the lessons of history, but the further away that pernicious regime and its policies gets, the better.
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