so this last sunday...a body was found at the bovet shopping center...literally 4 blocks away...the man had been stabbed...right outside the gym he works out at...possibly sometime between 12:30am and 2am...he was 41 years old...
have to admit...i live in a fairly safe neignborhood...meaning that i really never feel in danger...even though i am always careful...you just don't really hear a lot of bad things happening in our quiet little town...so this had me a little uneasy...it just seems no place is safe anymore...
come to find out...now confirmed...this was a suicide...don't even get me started on how someone can stab themself...let alone kill themself...or even the fact that he still decided to work out first...but it was over financial hardship...the man sent a letter to his wife explaining...so now she is alone...with four kids...
so tragic...i really have such mixed emotions...these are truly hard times...and i think there are a lot of people that are truly truly struggling...and see no end in sight...and see this as the only option...my heart goes out to the family that is left...to wonder why...to wonder if there was something they could have done...to pick up the pieces...
to me...suicide is such a selfish act...and as i am writing this...my heart is torn...because i have not walked in this man's shoes...i don't know how bad his pain was...or the severity of his stress etc...but the family is left to deal with all the aftermath...all the unanswered questions...and all the financial stress...it didn't leave with him...it stays...if not the same...even more now...
so even though i am back to feeling safe in my neighborhood...my heart is heavy today...for all the hurting people...i know i can't save them...there is only one who can...but i can do my part...a reminder that the most simple kind gesture to a stranger...can be the one thing that helps a struggling stressful hurting one...
do your part...
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