Ariel + Sunday Times =Sunday papers. You don't know what you are missing until after it is gone. The discovery of something human, another person who struggles with modern living, modern rubbish, out of the maelstorm creating beautifully crafted sentences. Its a plot against the literary. I have liked to be a wasp in the room when this decision was taken, i would buzz and sting the ears of those responsible for this decision. Maybe, I'll switch to the grauniad or torygraph next weekend.

Despondent of Bethnal Green, London,

I tend not to back things up but I get around this by always emailing important stuff to myself at gmail or talk21, you should try it. It would enable you to work anywhere on your scripts etc without taking a very expensive computer with you, just a cheap model to access the Internet.

Steve Byrom, Southport, UK

For God's sake, back up your files if they're that important to you! Sooner or later it'll die and now you know how you'll feel!

This was your wake-up call. If you're going to be a computer user, back up your files. It's part of the job.

Jon, Winchester,

In one moment, one second, your entire life can change. All the things "you can't live without" meaning materialistic possessions are forgotten in a second when you think something has happened to your child or anyone you love. Wouldn't most people give up their precious earthly possessions to have "one more minute" with someone they have loved and lost to death?
Its JUST stuff. We need to get past it and appreciate real life, whatever THAT is!

Janet, Belle Haven, VA, USA

CASSANDRA is a must for every Sunday Times magazine. Ariel is thoughtful, provoking with some tremendous articles again and again. It is the first thing I used to read in the Sunday Times, even before the sport pages !
The message to the Editor of the ST magazine is publish Ariel every Sunday.
A further message to Editor of The Times, please publish the great Cassandra articles on a daily basis.

Alistair Newman, London, U K

Please bring Ariel back to the magazine.

Shade, London,

ariel -- it's not the same, but i can guess how you must have felt in order to actually say this to a mother and child.

robert furlong, prescott, AZ

Well I know there are plenty of things we - as humans - can 'live without'.
I have this personally experienced as a young boy.
We have a big family and mainly for that reason we were poor, and as children we were normal active children.
Playing together, fighting, enjoying, living together.
We were despite the hardship a happy family and were used to doing without, and being without.
This has I feel made us strong willed and fairly determined.
We were however showed and had the love of our parents, and if I am honest there is one thing human beings cannot do without - and that is love.
So I'll gladly do make do without many other things.
If I am 'pushed' on something other it's Music and Manchester United!!

Jospin van Orly , Amsterdam,

I think it is an absolute discrace that old people in England have to pay for nursing care at home when it is free in Scotland and not means tested.and the English Parliament subsidises Scotland .People can come in from abroad and avail of our medical services free of charge and we seem unable to care for our old people without them using up their savings .These are people who have worked here all their lives and when in old age they need care they havee to use up their savings. I think this should be addressed most urgently.

m e Snell, wimbledon, London

Well, in today's world this is all I can comment on the quote :

"There is nothing I can live without" is true for today's world as far as I can conclude.

However the Human should have the mindset that there is nothing in the world without which he/she can't Live. Man can survive with the help of just natural gifts given by god to mankind and he need nothing in this world apart from those five things, the air, water, land, fire.

There are such human in this world these days as well...find them out and know them..you will find there company peace full and relieving as well.

thanks,
Jain

Mjain, Delhi, India

It's incredible someone can feel she couldn't live without her laptop. Please, think where technology is driving us.

Daniel, Vigo, Spain

great writing. I feel the sense of panic on loosing something precious. Please bring Ariel back to the magazine !!

Mario H, London,, UK

We cannot live without honeybees. Dying out at a rabid rate, they are more important than just about anything. Their plight is largely ignored by those in the fashion industry, governments at war, and major artists, to name a few.

Lavendier Myers, Peaks Island, Maine USA

'There's nothing I can't live without' ..... well, try going without food, water and money for a while and see how you get along.

JohnM , Stromeferry, UK

When we were small, Mum showed us where she kept one briefcase (containing vital documents) and one box (containing negatives for all family photos)--which we were to take as we flee in case of fire. Everything else, she explained, can be replaced.

J Michael, London/New York/Tokyo,

Your description of sudden loss, the blinding adrenaline panic of it, has left me in need of a defibrillator. Fantastic writing. So pleased you found it, and writing as a mother I can assure you that it sounded JUST like losing a child. Seeing your laptop tucked under the security guy's arm must have felt identical to seeing your child holding his hand.

You have really taught me something: I must back up my laptop files.

Annie, Emsworth, Hampshire

Reading Ariel's Cassandra was one of the highlights of my Sunday Times afternoon enjoyment - I appreciate it is important to move things forward but did you really have to remove it from print to show it online?

Just seems a shame.

Rebecca Perry, London,

I always look forward to reading your column in the magazine - but now no longer! I will have to have my computer fired up on a Sunday when I get the papers now so I can catch up. This is a shame as I am not as attached to my Apple laptop as you are and I like a break from the very small screen at the weekends. Hope you'll be back in the paper soon, but I'll just have to keep the laptop close!

Nicola, Oxford, Oxfordshire