Thought for the Week: Hard times

Tim Cook reflects on when night seems at its darkest

by Tim Cook 26th July 2013

About two years ago I started keeping a journal. I began it at a time when I was starting to attend Quaker Meeting regularly and was also facing the prospect of early retirement, both of which events certainly played an important part in my feeling a need to do this. The other day, I was looking back over the notebooks I use for it and saw that I had said a great deal about events of personal significance for me but almost nothing, in all that time, about what had been happening in the wider world. That’s as it should be in some ways, since it was always intended as a record of my personal journey and not as a historical document. But I felt there was a bit of a balance to be redressed.