Off the Deep End

by Lucinda Berry

How many bad things could happen to a person? Wasn’t there some kind of limit on the number of traumatic events you could experience in a lifetime? The universe needed to back off and leave us alone.

PERIOD.

Everyone else called it the train accident, but something isn’t an accident when you do it on purpose.

Maybe being treated like an animal turns you into one. Has anyone ever thought of that?

“I think grief makes people do crazy things.” I’m not going to argue with him there. I’ve done lots of insane things. It happens almost automatically when you’ve got nothing to lose. There’s an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose. And it’s really hard to be afraid of anything when the worst thing has already happened to you.

Louder for the people in the back.

“It’s not being strong when you don’t have any other choice. It’s not like you can say, ‘No thank you. I don’t want to do this anymore.’”

Yesssssiiirrr