Sorry Mum, by @ohunterjenkins
By Owen Hunter Jenkins – From the 2015/16 Intake
Sorry Mum
This is a dedication to all those people who’ve put up with me, you and anyone else with an idea. They’re the unsung heroes. They lend a hand when needed, listen when we spitball, and say they understand when we miss ‘that thing’. I don’t know who they are for you, but for me, there’s one girl who’s stomached the brunt of my bullshit:
In her words, I “haven’t been there” for the past 6 months. I still don’t know if she stayed because of rent or love, but thank-you.
This morning, I got an email:
Fuck.
The day before I’d sent the second woman in my life a link to my CrowdFunder page: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/
It wasn’t intended for Mothers. Especially mine. We’ve never had the ‘drug chat’, so jumping straight to a line of (albeit fake) cocaine was, well, bad. It brought home another truth. There’s a person who has put up with my bullshit longer than anyone else. So for that and more, I have to thank her too.
Marc emailed this week saying we’d all learn things from our first proper brief. How right he was. I just didn’t realise it would be one so close to home.
Now, to ring my Mum.
