A woman I know through blogging had lost her daughter who must be about 20. People were commenting on her post:
It is all destiny.
She is in a better place.
It is karma.
It is karma?? Whose karma? The young girl got hit by a speeding car who did not care to stop. He is roaming free. She is dead. She or her family has not done anything to deserve this. I guess the lady who commented meant that this had something to do with past life sins…
I hear some funny things about divorce too. A friend of mine is 28. She is in a relationship. She is not some child who cannot understand that sometimes things don’t work out. Whenever she hears about anyone’s divorce, she says:
Why did they get married if they wanted a divorce.
No, but what was the main reason?
Reason. Logic. Meaning. As humans we find it very difficult to comprehend tragedy and even more difficult to understand grief. We would like to think that there should be some reason. Haven’t we heard, Everything happens for a reason. We have also heard , Shit happens. But we do not like to believe it (for others). Because it defies our faith in the universe.
Another friend of mine and her boyfriend who is from another religion want to get married. They are facing objections from the boy’s family. She had asked the boy in the initial dating days if he intends to marry her. He had said yes. If some other woman gets dumped by a guy, she likes to say, ‘Told you so. You never asked him if he was serious.’ But when she is told that ‘You knew this was coming’, she says that since she had asked the man in the beginning, she was totally right about her choice.
Yes. Everybody’s grief is unique. It is therefore a painful and lonely journey. We refuse to accept that bad things simply happen… To people who did not deserve it!
A perfect couple who was together since college split.
We refuse to believe that one person outgrew the other. We put on our detective hats and try to analyze. Something else must have happened…. We do not want to lose our faith in ‘true love’
A nice caring girlfriend gets dumped without a warning.
We become therapists. She knew the signs coming. She should have known his intentions. She ignored. She was too foolish.
A young woman loses her life on the road.
We would like to think that there was some hidden meaning in it. We do not like to believe that something so cruel could happen just life that. If it could happen to them, it could happen to us.
And that is scary.
