Busy af right now. Prepping for events, got another big one on Saturday. Also working on a new project, something I've not done before, so I'm right out of my comfort zone with that lol Then got a trip to Dartmoor planned on Sunday, three days riding, two nights camping. Should be a reet good laugh.
Not mine but someone else's story to cheer you up Morning all. Am feeling maudlin this morning - just received an email telling me that the son of a long-term friend/work colleague in Queensland committed suicide. My friend himself died early last year - having never fully recovered from being stabbed during a home invasion - and his wife died around six months later. Her death caused their two adult sons a problem - neither could afford to keep paying the mortgage on the family home - the older of the two having a family & mortgage of his own and the younger having never worked due to a mental health problem - and before they realised what was happening, the bank repossessed it. The youngest of the two lived on the streets for a while before finding accommodation in a homeless shelter. Last week he found out that the shelter was closing and he'd be back out on the streets - apparently unable to face that prospect, during the night he climbed onto the roof of the shelter and threw himself off. His body was found early the next morning by a 12 year-old girl out walking her dog - and, to compound the tragedy, the girl is his brother's daughter. The thought of how much tragedy one family can experience had me in tears.
Simple moral to this story Be grateful for what you have and dont cry like a baby when something small goes wrong in your life
Cheers Duggie, That's going to take some beating, tbh. Fcuking tragic. Why didn't his older brother take him in, though? He must be feeling some sort of guilt.
Yeah that bit was brutal. She will be haunted by that for the rest of her life. She could end up going down the road of heroin and prostitution. Poor girl.
The posts above brought back a lot of memories ... not good ones ... but things said that I totally get and can empathise with ... in June 1979 my old man dropped dead of a massive heart attack - I was 19. For my family it was the culmination of a tragic 3 months ... first we lost my uncle (my mum's brother) who finally succumbed to the cancer first diagnosed when he was 19 - he was a very promising footballer in the same apprenticeship side as Duncan Edwards and Bobby Charlton at United when they first found it - he was 43 when he passed in 1979 ... then we lost my Grandma (mum's mother) who lived next door to us ... cancer of the oesophagus... then a month later my dad ... bad enough for me but how the **** the old girl coped with it all I'll never know ... she was a remarkable woman. 1979 was obviously not the best for me - remember the day/week my dad died 'Are Friends Electric' by Tubeway Army (Gary Numan) went to No1 in the charts ... one of the most melancholy melodies I'd heard in my life at that time ... I played it on my record player with the arm up for those who remember what that facilitated! (meant it just kept playing over and over) ... the music and some of the lyrics just seemed so poignant and, somehow, it helped me cope with the grief ... Hope I haven't depressed you all too much!!!
Me too but you know how these things play out mate. Either that or she'll put herself under a train. I pray she's got a loving and supportive network around her.
I thought I'd had a rough deal. Turns out I've lived a sheltered life. That must have been tough for you, mate.
Made me grow up much quicker than I really would have liked ... but I think it also made me appreciate life ... and living it ...
It is strange how things can happen like that, so much grief to deal with in a short time, but you seem to have dealt with it in the long term which must have been good for you and your family Hope nothing like that happens again to you and your family
