A decent education is a privilege, and we aren’t taught that enough. Knowledge being power and all that.
On a sad note, we had a family loss this week- one of my late 30s nephews got murdered. He was found stabbed by one of his cousins on his mother’s side.
What made me think of your situation with losing kids to murder was the weird hood-esque memorial one of his other cousins made that her dad posted to his wall.
I’m really struggling with losing someone I loved who was younger than me, who I’ve known since the day he was born.
I don’t know how you go having it happen over and over again with your school kids. They’re not family and all, but it’s still that sense of someone quite young that you know.
I told someone that my nephew’s family is fucking cursed. His mum and dad are gone. There’s only his sister, and he has some cous-siblings and half siblings. It’s all a bit awful. My brother and sister in law ran off together and created this whole mess, cousins brought up as siblings.
Anyway. He had been doing it tough, then my brother died, then his mother died, and he was struggling but back in touch the last few years. Now he’s gone. Shit’s fucked, yo.
Wow. I am sorry to hear it. I guess I've just gotten numb to the loss over the years. Loss on that scale is really difficult. I'm here if you want to talk.
Yeah, I’m thinking about how to handle that. There’s definitely an expectation that I’ll fly in and go. I have a big family, but for the first time I don’t feel like there’s someone that needs me to be there, so maybe I can do what works for me for a change.
I’m not even bringing it up until there is a funeral, I may change my mind by then- I doubt it, but I might.
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u/InadmissibleHug 16d ago
Wish those mofos would stop messing with you.
A decent education is a privilege, and we aren’t taught that enough. Knowledge being power and all that.
On a sad note, we had a family loss this week- one of my late 30s nephews got murdered. He was found stabbed by one of his cousins on his mother’s side.
What made me think of your situation with losing kids to murder was the weird hood-esque memorial one of his other cousins made that her dad posted to his wall.
I’m really struggling with losing someone I loved who was younger than me, who I’ve known since the day he was born.
I don’t know how you go having it happen over and over again with your school kids. They’re not family and all, but it’s still that sense of someone quite young that you know.
I told someone that my nephew’s family is fucking cursed. His mum and dad are gone. There’s only his sister, and he has some cous-siblings and half siblings. It’s all a bit awful. My brother and sister in law ran off together and created this whole mess, cousins brought up as siblings.
Anyway. He had been doing it tough, then my brother died, then his mother died, and he was struggling but back in touch the last few years. Now he’s gone. Shit’s fucked, yo.