How do we cope with tragedies and allow ourselves to move on?
I've lived in Orlando for over 30 years and I could have never imagined the horror that fell on June 12, 2016 at the PULSE nightclub.
Orlando had never experienced anything like it as a gunman opened fire and killed forty nine innocent souls and injured another fifty three.
It was a senseless tragedy and senseless loss of life. Innocent people were just dancing and having a good time. PULSE was not just a gay nightclub as the media reported; it was a place where gay, straight, bi...whatever came to party and dance the night away in what was once a safe place.
A young lady in our neighborhood lost four of her best friends...in one night. Imagine that...we go through most of our lives and not lose even one of our best friends and she loses four in one night.
One of the most amazing sights however in the midst of this tragedy was seeing the nearly mile long lines of people waiting to give blood. Some lines were three hours long...and still the people waited in line to give.
Blood. The very thing we all need to survive; to keep our hearts pumping and our PULSE alive.
Blood for straight and gay alike; from friends and strangers, from Hispanic or not, from male and female, young and old.
Blood to give life and hope to the hopeless.
This is how you move on from a tragedy.
This city united like never before, all around a common goal; the respect for life and for our fellow human beings.
We are Spirit with a body...not the other way around.
We are Spirit, plain and simple.
We move on and begin the healing process by never forgetting or losing sight of the love for our friends and family stolen from us. We move on by living a life in such a manner they are proud of. We move on one day at a time.
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