Mistakes that people make
People make mistakes: too much water in the cooking, a wrong turn on the freeway, wrong spelling for the whole world to see. Or more seriously, they choose the wrong career or marry the wrong person. But none would be as cruel as the mistake I read in the news yesterday.
A 40-year old Ohio woman forgot to drop off her 2-year old daughter in the morning and left her in the car’s back seat in a hot summer day. She is a assistant principle of a middle school. She didn’t forget she had to get six dozens of doughnuts for the faculty meeting. She hustled, she hurried, and she was busy all day; only to find the little girl lay lifeless in the car as she returned at the end of the day.
There were people screaming for blood wanting the poor mother in jail. Everything would seem so insignificant compare to the cruelty that she has to live with her tragic mistake for the rest of her life. It is one of the saddest news I have read for a long time.
posted by Keith @ 11:48 PM
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2 Comments:
I read it on the newspaper as well. Sad. I wonder whether burnt-out was one of the factors that led to the tragedy.
Don't really know the exact cause but the tragic outcome of this kind of news always hits me hard. I still vividly remember an old news about a NJ father backing his family van out of driveway, ran over and killed his son who just learned to walk.
Hercules killing his sons in the Greek tragedy sounds like mythology. But one can easily relate to these parents' mistakes to our daily lives.
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