The lonely death of Ms. Smith has shocked a lot of people in our neighbourhood, and today three elderly ladies, Ms. Schneider, Ms. Rivera and Ms. Kleiber, came to me with this letter in which they want to share their thoughts. – Maja
Dear park visitors,
Yesterday´s news has made a deep impact on us as members of the older generation in our park. We therefore want to share some of our thoughts on this tragedy that happened to poor Ms. Smith. Our hope is that we can prevent this from ever happening again.
We are three elderly ladies who all live close to the park and meet here every day to chat and enjoy its beautiful environment. Two of us are widows, so we feel very lucky to know each other and share many interests. If one of us does not turn up we contact her to hear if there is something wrong.
Ms. Smith did not come to the park every day, but always brought bread for the ducks or used to sit by the fountain reading her book. She was always friendly, but kept to herself, and the last months we have seen little of her. She aged a lot this last year and did not look very well. We often mentioned this between us, but never went over to ask how she really was. Now this makes us terribly sad, and we realise that even though we must have known to ourselves that she was very lonely, we were not willing to let this concern us.
There are other people like Ms. Smith in our local society, young and old people who don´t have friends and family around them. We feel it´s important to remind all of us that we as individuals have a responsibility towards our fellow human beings. Let´s do our share to take care of the less fortunate amongst us.
Last but not least we want to give our thanks to this charming, young lady, Maja, who has started this initiative.
With kind regards,
Ms. Schneider, Ms. Rivera and Ms. Kleiber
Kiss my ass Misssssissis!!
This lovely Ms. Smith used to be my mother once. And yes, she was good at reading. Reading and dreaming. And that was it. Where were she when I lost myfather, six years old? Where were she when I started to hang out late at night? Where were she when I 12 years old came home deadly drunk? Where were she when I begged her to restart her antidepressiva treatment? And WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU NOW???!!!!
And where was she when you didn´t go to school, right? Are you a fucking immigrant or what? where WERE she?? go home.
Yes, where WERE she when I didn’t go to school??!!!
Pull yourself together, man
I share the feelings of these three ladies, and I think we can understand both sides of this story. I can´t believe you´re using this tragedy to bully Martin, Front! It´s ok to speak your mind in this blog, but I will erase this kind of comments in the future, which is my freedom as the editor of this page.
I don´t know who Front is, but my son says this sort of attitude has become common among some of the pupils in secondary school. I think both us as parents, and the teachers, have a job to do here. Especially since the pupils feel very unsure about how to handle this kind of behaviour and are afraid they will be the next victims. Any other parent or pupil with the same kind of experiences?
I´m really glad to hear that a parent takes this initiative and hope I can be of some help, too. I know quite a few teenagers and have understood that this is difficult to handle. It´s important that we young and old grown-ups show that we care about this.
Hi. We are two girls in secondary school. This is very difficult for some of the pupils at our school, and we hope that someone will help these pupils because these boys are really bad. We don´t dare to say something because we know some boy did, and they went home to him after school and beat him up.