I have to edit this down. I get emotional about this stuff because it strikes home hard. Look, what I've said isn't an assumption. And I'm sure that you have missed the point completely. That's not how a child feels when they are confronted with the death of a parent. They don't say to themselves that they feel so blessed to have had the time they did with that parent. It runs way deeper than that with a child, and more so with an overdose death because they are completely avoidable, they come out of nowhere, the self-blame the child feels that maybe they had somehow contributed to the reasons, and the list goes on and on. It's especially brutal on kids man. The how and why are the questions they will deal with for a long time. It leaves an everlasting scar. I've been on both sides of that coin and I don't care to go into any more detail than that on an open forum.
And you are assuming I don't know directly either, aren't you? Pretty boldly, too, it seems.
I merely pointed out other possible futures for them.
I am not hear to debate HOW someone makes meaning out of such a tragedy. I am just saying there is
a possibility that is NOT going to go down exactly like you have already determined it will be for those
people/children/loved ones left behind in the wake of Taylor's passing. It's not scripted to be an eternally
dark future with no light. It will definitely be dark.... and likely pretty intensely so.... but that doesn't have
to be the sole and lasting outcome.
I am not just saying this just for myself either. I am saying this also as a reflection of those who have been
left in the wake of someone's unexpected death and passing. There is not one way to write future chapters.
So much depends on the support system around us, and how healthy it is or is not. I am guessing with the
love and support they have from so many close to them that there will be a lot of light related to their Father,
and to their future as his children.
My heart goes out to anyone who has ever had to wrestle with such a tragedy.
