Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Close to home

A friend of mine from high school that I just recently started talking to again in the past 9 mos. has had tragedy strike her family. Her 25 year old brother was murdered last Friday. Her brother had been troubled with meth addiction for quite awhile. Though he was not murdered over drugs.

My friend hadn't seen her brother in a few months because of troubles. She and her parents were doing the tough love route. Which I totally agree with. Still it had been a few months since she'd seen her brother and now he is gone.

This got me thinking about my relationship with my own sister. Until 2 weeks ago I had not spoken to my sister since March. Which is odd for our relationship as I have taken on the mother role to her since my mom's passing. I was doing the tough love role. I believed she was going down the wrong path. She had disrespected my home and I made the decision to kick her out of the house and let her hit rock bottom. My sister finally got her shit together and actually thanked me for kicking her out. I am so grateful she got her shit together. I could not imagine if I got the call that she had been gunned down like my friends brother.

I know this man's family is feeling tremendous guilt. Nothing will make them realize that they did what they had to. I feel so awful for them. They really did do the right thing, and he maybe could've turned his life around but these 2 pieces of shit robbed him of that opportunity.

1 comments:

Heather said...

Again, I was just crushed when I heard about this. No one deserves to have this happen to him.

Although I did not know the guy I do know the woman who is accused of his murder and she is most definately a piece of shit.

Tell Sara I'm thinking of her and her family.