Hi, Carolyn, you would have felt the loss of those children more keenly with them being local. I would never be able to empathise with or forgive that driver. Yet I can imagine how that hatred could be destructive to one’s self and ability to carry on living. I believe the parents went on to have more children. That alone is so brave as some people in those circumstances would be too fearful knowing how quickly life can be extinguished.
Those parents whose children were killed by the intoxicated driver - they lived a few streets away from where I was living at the time. It was literally very close to home. I too admired & appreciated their forgiveness. I would struggle to forgive-
Oh wow, about the parents of three children you mentioned. I sort of agree with the parents in their application of forgiveness, but how they could do it right after the accident is beyond me. Nice entry.
If you could change one thing in your life, what would that be? Would you be younger? Older? Richer? Poorer? Traveler? Homebody? You tell us...
If I could change one thing in my life would be to attempt to stay at school longer. I hated each and every day at school. I was shy, timid and scared out of my wits most of the time. The teachers were cruel, I can’t remember a nice one. Seventy six years ago I started full time school. I was a day over four years old. I left the day after my fifteenth birthday feeling as if I was stupid and unable to learn.
How sad is that? I found a boyfriend at fifteen and stuck with him ever since. I think it was because he made me feel safe. That’s another thing I’d never do. Not that we haven’t been happy but maybe things would have been different if I’d been able to stay at school, go to university, been something. Everything I know has been self taught, and I now know that I’m actually not stupid! 😂
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