Making a bad decision can sometimes lead to a lifetime of regret. Usually there are warning signs along the way. When we fail to listen, we may find ourselves on a dark road of which there may be no return . . . (Then we went back to the day of the shooting. “Tell us what happened,” one of the detectives asked. I thought about that for a few seconds and said, “I was just facing the elephant.”) ‘Facing the elephant’, a term used when confronted with an experience of desolation and sadness, which few would want to experience again.