Guess what?!! Wednesday morning I Red Rolle rollerblading to work!!! Well to the gym then work, but I'd been meaning to do it ever since I moved to South Perth earlier this year and it's now November... (GOSH!!!?) It took me 38mins or meandering and it takes Rayzo the Amazo 16mins to run - so I guess now I have a goal.
As I soaked up the tunes of Switchfoot as I strolled past people, appreciating my life and the beautiful morning God had made. Then I saw a dead body! Well not quite – he was being covered when I bladed past and a few police were there. No blaring yellow crime scene tape or weeping loved ones. Just a lonely person who some how died by a tree and someone noticed that morning. So sad andbizarree at the same time.
I was feeling so alive and then confronted with the contrastingrealityy of a guy who’s not living. It got me thinking for all of 10mins and then my destination of the gym and my rollerblading technique over took my thoughts (or lack of). I arrived...I went for a swim...I ordered a long black pool side... I had my quiet time and then walked to work from there!! I DID NOT THINK OF THE DEAD GUY! This fully confronted me later in the day. I'd turned off to this tragic truth so easily.
It’s tragic that as soon as I was in the pool I had forgotten all about the dead guy and my concerns for this person were non-existent. Forgotten... Very sad how we are so muted in society by media, crime on TV, the nonchalant way death is reported and our own attitudes. No offense Brycey. You boys do the job. But the scene I saw that morning of the Coroner pulling the blanket over this man's walking boots was like a flicking to CSI and I'd changed my thought patterns as quickly as changing channels. The importance of life and death has been watered down even for those who supposedly 'care' (most of the time)'good Christian folk'... like me.
This seemed in line with what Pauly Morrison was talking about on Sunday night and writing letters to your Compassion kids. Do it! Compassion: Jesus had it. What are we doing to try and get more of it? What am I doing? Sermon over. Have a great day! *wink wink*
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Sorry about the spell check on this thing is very ordinary. Note to self: view post first!! ;)
Wow! The only time I've ever seen a dead person was in a coffin like 10 yrs ago...& on CSI of course. I agree with how quick we forget about the world around us & focus in on our own little selfish existence...shame. Goes to show how much more of JC we's all need!
I've been to many a crime scene and seen quiet a few bodies (usually covered up though) and I have to say that my response is often the same as Kym's. Occasionally there will be grieving relatives there - sometimes screaming at police - sometimes screaming at me. Yet somehow I seem to distance myself from it (just part of the job I usually tell myself). And before long I'm back in the car on the way to the office, thinking about how to write the story - or what I'm having for lunch.
It's true we've become used to seeing a lot of this kind of stuff. But at the same time if I processed everything I saw on the job - I'd go mental. I think there's got to be a healthy balance between thinking about stuff - and dwelling on it for too long.
Something to think about anyway. Keep up the posting Kym!
wow you didn't told me that kym... if I would imagine that when i saw you that day....you seemed so relax...
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