Reading about the shooting in CT , just makes me cry. All those parents lost their children. They woke up and sent their kids off to school thinking it was a day just like any other and then a tragedy occurs. It makes me cry. Seriously. I've spent the last hour and a half crying over the loss of those children.
My mom used to say I was morbid. I probably am . ( I used to write stories where the parents would die and someone would come rescue the kids.) But everyday I worry that something will happen to Gregg or Zoe or even myself. I make Gregg text me the minute he gets to work , or gets home from dropping me off at work , just so I know that he's okay. I'm up several times a night making sure him and Zoe are breathing okay.
I say it's because I know that at any given moment , everything can just be taken away from you. Not from personal experience or anything , but I'm not naive either. I had a friend in college who died 3 years ago from heart failure. I was saddened by the loss her family suffered. I have friends whose infant children have died. Which is hard at any age , but something someone my age especially should never have to go through.
I read stories of parents who have been told their children won't survive birth , and if they do it will only be for a few minutes to hours. People whose children have diseases that won't let them live to be 20. All I can think is it's not fair.
It's not fair that the families who lost children or parents today had to go through that so close to the holidays because someone made a bad decision. Because someone couldn't think of the effects their actions would have on so many families. It's not fair that parents or children have to lose family members because of things outside of their control.
So I'm making it a personal goal to hug my family tighter everyday. To pray for those families who have lost someone so close and dear to them. To remember that in a moment everything can change. That nothing in life is guaranteed.
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