Breaking Free

On the front page of the Toronto Star GTA section on May 1/07 was the face of a fellow TTC employee with the anguish of the loss of a bright young subway driver in a maintenance accident.

That is the new media coverage. In prior times, these would be considered private moments but now this is society's sympathy and compassion. Their anguish is ours.

These are the points of raw emotion. What we don't see is that which is not newsworthy: The healing process and moving forward. This happens differently in each of us. We can't let past events tie us down. If we are forever tethered to that perspective we can never release and move beyond where we can see a new view. Not to say we will forget where we have been but as we move on we can see better where we've been and what we were holding onto much more clearly.