Today I watched a family say good bye to a loved one. Dead at age 23 from heroin, leaving behind a little baby girl that will never know of dad. It is a very sad thing to lose anyone, it is even worse for those left to carry on. every single day for the rest of their lives all those that were left will have to wrestle with the things they knew and the things that maybe if they had done different might have kept this young man alive.
As a mother I cannot understand how this young mans mother could drive him to pick up his score. How could she have been so oblivious to the fact he was dying? It is called denial, the hope that it will just work itself all out and everything will be okay. It didn't and it isn't. I would rather have someone hate me forever for trying to help then to do nothing and watch them die. I do not even pretend to know what it must be like for his mother right now. Only three years as an adult. Seems sort of unfair. I wonder what happened in that family that has sunk so deep it has effected not just one but two generations and now an innocent third generation is left with a hole caused by a missing dad. So very sad.
As a mother I cannot understand how this young mans mother could drive him to pick up his score. How could she have been so oblivious to the fact he was dying? It is called denial, the hope that it will just work itself all out and everything will be okay. It didn't and it isn't. I would rather have someone hate me forever for trying to help then to do nothing and watch them die. I do not even pretend to know what it must be like for his mother right now. Only three years as an adult. Seems sort of unfair. I wonder what happened in that family that has sunk so deep it has effected not just one but two generations and now an innocent third generation is left with a hole caused by a missing dad. So very sad.