He read in the paper that Graham Thorpe had killed himself by ‘walking under a train’. At least, I think that he is what he read. It doesn’t matter whether the verb as to walk or to throw or to lie. He took his own life, violently because living was more than he could bear. I think of him and his family. And I think of another who took her life in the same way. A beautiful girl with piercing blue eyes. She didn’t think she was good enough. Bless them both. Some say that we are given the lives that we can manage, I’d like to think that was the case. But I suspect, for some, it is not. So much pain and joy in one planet in one universe. How can any of us bear it?
