A close-up photograph of a black-and-white newspaper column. The heading “Under pressure” appears in large serif type. Beneath it is a short letter in smaller serif text. The sender’s name is bold, followed by the location on the next line. A thin vertical rule runs along the left edge.
Transcription
Under pressure
SIR – I was assisting my 16-year-old daughter with her homework when she received a text from Mum, which read: “What do you want from life?”
This was an unexpected and profound question for an exam-sitting teenager. We debated various answers – wealth, fulfilment, love, all three.
Five minutes later, she received a second message, blaming predictive text for correcting the word Lidl.
David Lavelle
Coneythorpe, North Yorkshire