This is a phrase I have found very painful.\u00a0 It\u2019s always caused me pain to see the dead animals by the side of the road.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been in terror of what would I do if I saw one that was still struggling, how could I put it out of its misery. It\u2019s not something that happened to me except once, recently.\u00a0 I was walking in Franconia where the road runs along the Gale River, and I saw a creature, black, looking a little like an otter, lying beside the road.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t run as I walked by on the other side, it just sort of flapped its paw.\u00a0 I panicked, went by without looking again, crossed the bridge and came back on the other side to avoid seeing it again.\u00a0 I drove home by the same way so as not to see it again.\u00a0 I think I was a little in shock.\u00a0 Now I see that as I went past the Police Station, I could have stopped and asked someone to take care of it.<\/p>\n
I puzzled over why the whole thing should have upset me so much.\u00a0 I realize that I often have times when I feel like my life is hurt too badly to live.\u00a0 Those are the days when I want to die because it\u2019s so hard to keep going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a phrase I have found very painful.\u00a0 It\u2019s always caused me pain to see the dead animals by the side of the road.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been in terror of what would I do if I saw one that was … Continue reading