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RE: Freewrite Day 482 Magical Realism
Reality and realism, so similar but so different. I like you stay in reality instead of realism. And the story of the man gives me some goosebumps. I don't know why.
But, I want to greet you Happy Valentine's Day still. And tell you, you are awesome.
Thank you very much and Happy Valentine's Day to you too, @iamjadeline.
He was a chilling guy and best stayed far away from. I'm glad my tale was effecting anyway.
I talk about reality and realism in my weight loss work at times. People do not want to see things for how they are and often this is why they stay obese. Just getting people to find out if they are obese or not with the bmi stats is enough to send them running away.
I know why gives you goosebumps! He killed, and he got away with it!
My sister's murderer has walked free since the night of Nov. 28, 1975, while she never got to marry, have children, meet her sister's children, see CDs and iPods and YouTube... but he... he is a grandpa, a minister with a flock who love Pastor Bob, and he's got people in high places who say "Bob is good people." Good like John Gacy, who was handed an award from First Lady Rosalynn Carter for his civic volunteerism. Gag me. Sorry for this... I almost passed over this post in silence because of the killer, but your "I don't know why" just uncorked my need to rant. Thanks @fitinfun and @iamjadeline for sharing your thoughts with #freewritehouse!
Oh my God. My prayers are for you and you family, @carolkean. This is a horrible tragedy. I am so very sorry. It's hard to know why something like this could happen. We have to just praise God that the vast majority of people in the world are good. We are so trusting that we are easily fooled. There are a number of stories like that with criminals having friends in high places.
But in the case of this person in my story, he did serve a 7 year sentence. I met him during the brief time we was out before going back in for anther crime.
I'm glad the guy you met did serve some time behind bars. And thanks for the prayers and condolences. It changes your life, t o lose someone so young and vibrant, but to have that life stolen - to have her body dumped like roadside trash, and the killer(s) to walk free - that just ratchets up the shock and awe and outrage to a different realm. I'm amazed at how many other people have lost a loved one to murder, yet somehow, most of us move on. Thanks again @fitinfun.
We are very resilient until we are not. I too see people go through incredible hardship and trauma and succeed in coming out a better stronger person. This is the best result of any tragedy.
Yes! My friend Monica lost her only brother to brain cancer (he was 11). Twenty years later she was married and expecting the first grandchild, but on the anniversary of Albert's death, her father committed suicide. He was a devout Catholic with a devoted wife and two daughters, but he disproved the old truism that God never gives you more than you can handle. How was he unable to see that his suicide would increase the burden and anguish exponentially for those he left behind? I'll never understand.
My son is 25 and many of his childhood friends are already gone now. Quite a lot of those were suicides. Those kids were my kids in a way, but they were his close friends. I wondered like you how those upset by prior suicides could do this to those remaining. Now I feel they are not able to look past their own pain.
You son is too young to lose "many" friends to suicide! With teenagers versus adults who are married with kids, the despair and the lack of perspective are a bit easier to fathom, but I just can't imagine a mother or father ending it all when other depend on them. Maybe that is part of it right there: having to be strong for others when you can't be strong for yourself. I just cannot fathom it, anyway, to love somebody so much and yet that person commits suicide, and the inevitable "how did I not see this coming" - it's just haunting.
Sorry to hear that happened to your sister. Hugs @carolkean 💖.