'Hege
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Sorry. I simply can’t carry this one myself.
<deep breath>
It’s one thing to lose a friend and a co-worker through retirement, sickness, layoffs, and other opportunities pursued. These things all have normalized over my lifetime, maybe yours too. It’s just the result of having known too many summers, is my best guess.
That being said, it’s another thing when a person is literally struck down by another human and broken away from his life, his family, friends, and co-workers.
I feel there is a lot of tension in the fabric of life right now. Normally held quiet feelings, sometimes raw, often angry and simmering, lie just below the surface, and can erupt at even the slightest offhand comment (even at a family BBQ) and lead to a more violent exchange, a physical confrontation that results in dire consequences.
In these exchanges there are no winners.
Those left standing may face long days in small, concrete rooms, their own families left fatherless by their absence, sometimes for long periods. Those broken on the ground, and likely their families, may face far worse.
In this instance one man died after a month long coma, and after that death, another man learned some new words… starting with “Manslaughter.” Two families will be fatherless, one for a significantly longer time, albeit.
It is a shame that our most important organ and literally our soul, is housed in such a fragile eggshell of a casing, and once broken, typically we are powerless to do anything but hope.
I simply hoped the man lived. He did not.
He was put into a medically induced coma for 2 weeks following the beating. When they brought him out of the coma, he never responded and everything in his body shut down in two weeks.
He came to work here as a 17 yr old. A loyal and trusted Employee for 30 yrs+, a leader in one of our important departments. I’ve had the pleasure of working with him for over 13 years, and now my succession planning kicks in, and his replacement has already taken over the load.
Rest in Peace, Brother. We will miss you.
Of course, in my younger days, fighting happened too. (lol old guy shouts at the sky)
But after you knocked a guy down a few times, split a lip or bloodied a nose, it was over. No one pummeled a helpless guy, hell, no one even LET someone pummel a helpless combatant, no matter your side in the argument.
Sorry, Rant over.
You know how it is. Sometimes you just need to unload.
Thanks all. Just for listening (reading)
<deep breath>
It’s one thing to lose a friend and a co-worker through retirement, sickness, layoffs, and other opportunities pursued. These things all have normalized over my lifetime, maybe yours too. It’s just the result of having known too many summers, is my best guess.
That being said, it’s another thing when a person is literally struck down by another human and broken away from his life, his family, friends, and co-workers.
I feel there is a lot of tension in the fabric of life right now. Normally held quiet feelings, sometimes raw, often angry and simmering, lie just below the surface, and can erupt at even the slightest offhand comment (even at a family BBQ) and lead to a more violent exchange, a physical confrontation that results in dire consequences.
In these exchanges there are no winners.
Those left standing may face long days in small, concrete rooms, their own families left fatherless by their absence, sometimes for long periods. Those broken on the ground, and likely their families, may face far worse.
In this instance one man died after a month long coma, and after that death, another man learned some new words… starting with “Manslaughter.” Two families will be fatherless, one for a significantly longer time, albeit.
It is a shame that our most important organ and literally our soul, is housed in such a fragile eggshell of a casing, and once broken, typically we are powerless to do anything but hope.
I simply hoped the man lived. He did not.
He was put into a medically induced coma for 2 weeks following the beating. When they brought him out of the coma, he never responded and everything in his body shut down in two weeks.
He came to work here as a 17 yr old. A loyal and trusted Employee for 30 yrs+, a leader in one of our important departments. I’ve had the pleasure of working with him for over 13 years, and now my succession planning kicks in, and his replacement has already taken over the load.
Rest in Peace, Brother. We will miss you.
Of course, in my younger days, fighting happened too. (lol old guy shouts at the sky)
But after you knocked a guy down a few times, split a lip or bloodied a nose, it was over. No one pummeled a helpless guy, hell, no one even LET someone pummel a helpless combatant, no matter your side in the argument.
Sorry, Rant over.
You know how it is. Sometimes you just need to unload.
Thanks all. Just for listening (reading)
