COULD WE HAVE SAVED A LIFE?

Could we have saved a life?

I received a call to help two single mothers with some groceries living in Tronoh. It was supposed to be a normal routine, where I go and deliver the groceries and off I go.

The picture you see is where one of the single mother live with her 5 kids without basic utilities. It's not even the the lack of basic necessity that I couldn't wrap my head around but how she lost her first born.

As I was leaving after unloading the groceries, she pointed at the second picture and said her oldest son hung himself a week ago because he was depressed that he could not put food on the table for them.

I believe my heart stopped for a moment and I could not think. I just looked at the lady and didn't know what to say. Would it have made a difference if I had come a week earlier? Would he be alive? I don't know but I am feeling so shitty.

He was 22 and probably if someone just looked harder at his situation, he might be alive. Again, I don't know. Yeah, depression is real and I guess we just have to be more sensitive and pay more attention.

It's kinda a fucked up to know people are still struggling to have access to something basic like food. Sigh...

Always wondered what is my purpose in this world. Perhaps this is it. The world is my home and everyone in it are my family. I do what I can, as long as I can and wherever I can. 😔

#lucifer

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