One thing that would have most definitely been different if Dan were here is that I wouldnt have been able to understand or relate to the grief of the families of the two victims who wouldnt be home for Christmas. Because I wouldnt have been through my own traumatic life-altering loss. I would have felt deep sorrow for them in a Oh gosh, I cant imagine what they must be going through right now kind of way. But, I wouldnt have really been able to empathise with any meaningful emotion. Instead, I was able to very easily put myself in their shoes and recount some of the first-moment grief they would be feeling. That numbness and physical sickening. The thoughts of how unfair it was that their wife or son were the ones to be killed. How random that this murderer had walked into the same cafe where their loved one happened to be working or enjoying a morning coffee. How quickly their lives had been torn apart without any chance to say goodbye. The strange, almost trivial things that pop in to your mind in those first moments of shock - what will we do with her Christmas presents? Or but he has an appointment with the doctor/hair-dresser/accountant next Tuesday that hes supposed to go to? ~Rebecca on Widows Voice
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:30:00 +0000
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