What Do You Want From Life?

This is a letter sent to the Daily Telegraph, recorded in The Week Magazine:



Dear Sirs



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".