It’s been a week of reflection and self preservation. A time of great sadness. Insurmountable grief beamed into our lounge rooms, filling the airwaves and flashing up on screens. Newspapers splashed with tears. Families torn apart.
Weeks like these require pulling those you love tight. It demands of you an acute sense of life. Gratefulness. Insightfulness.
For us it involved freshly baked bread, bouillabaisse, crisp white wine and dance music peppering the silence with beats of joyfulness. For when the quiet came, the faces of victims would fill the gaps. The “what ifs” would run wild. The smiles of the children taken too soon forever etched in my memory. Wasteful loss of life, souls beaming bright, now gone. I wish that plane had landed and all those people had been met by loved ones, smiley hugs and lively discussions of journeys. Not left alone in fields.
It’s a wobbly world. Great highs, devastating lows. We all held on tight. We bunkered down.
Love and light to all those forever changed by the world’s events and those struggling with life and death closer to home.
bigwords x
Hi, I'm Bianca Wordley, I write about life.
So true xxxxx
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It’s all so hard to comprehend. Which is why focusing on the ones you love around you is the best we all can do. xo
Hi Bianca,
I have been a long time reader of your blog as I generally enjoy what you write about. I rarely comment anywhere on the internet but just wanted to ask something….Why is it that loss of lives in a plane attack garners so much more media/attention/obsession than the loss of life that occurs (to a much greater extent) every day all over the world in war zones such as the gaza strip, afghanistan…..Yes the loss of life from M17 is terrible and sad and a tragedy no dispute, but do people feel it more acutely and report on it more because it is somehow “different”, or because some of the people who died were from our own country, or even our own state and thus easier to connect with (even though in most cases we don’t know them any more than we know someone in Palastine)? Is it because the media dramatises it more? Is this why you felt the need to post about it and why my son’s school had to fly the flag at half mast? What are your feelings?
Hi Celia,
Thanks so much for commenting, I love you felt comfortable enough to do so. You know in this case I think it’s because our family has just returned from flying overseas and I am already a fearful flyer and this touched a big nerve with me, particularly looking at the faces of the families gone, caught up in a single stupid act of war. I in no way do I believe there is a sliding scale of death, as I wrote my thoughts are with anyone dealing with death closer to home. Why the media latches on to some stories and not others is a much bigger, involved answer which I do not have. Every day there are people from all walks of life, backgrounds, countries who are being killed in violent ways. The weight of that I cannot carry. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the horribleness of life and have to write something. If I spent my days writing about all the awful tragedies and violence happenings within people’s homes and workplaces each day I would not be able to find the joy. I have to put my blinkers on sometimes. You know I think if a tragedy brings people together, or makes them question the bigger picture or go searching for answers or seek more knowledge about world affairs or feel the need to pay their respects to deal with own emotional reactions/connection then it should be done. I wrote about it because on the day I went to write it was filling my heart. I hope this in some way answers your questions and I look forward to seeing you comment again xx
Hey Bianca,
Thanks for replying and I respect what you are saying. I may not have written about it or in the same way but I understand better why you felt the need to write what you did, so thank you for the clarification.
Thank you too for your blog over all, I do enjoy reading it on a regular basis. I read a lot of political blogs/news etc, so it’s nice to come and read some more down to earth things on your blog 🙂