- Dads die in silence
- 27/02/2014 Make a Comment
- Contributed by: Bewitched ( 29 articles in 2014 )
While the media picks up the odd tragic death like the recent Batty and Freeman cases and then sensationalizes them until the cows come home for plentiful revenue and to spring board academic agendas, truth is, most dads die in silence with barely a few people ever hearing or knowing about it, or even less, caring.
So whether it be dads saying so long through suicide or simply dying of a broken heart, it's often a slow death from being cut out of people's lives and made to feel redundant without sometimes any justification or wrong doing by the dad. There are also those dads that do make minor mistakes, like any developing human being, yet pay a huge price in being branded an outcast. While some dads can cope with this type of alienation, assassination and abandonment, others are fragile human beings who cannot.
So being a dad can be a hard life whether you toe the line with absolute perfection or not. Sometimes dads can regain a new sense of purpose, a new family perhaps, career or mission, and sometimes not. Sometimes dads are not psychologically resilient to the modern day beatings compared with the physical lashings to the slaves of old.
Man can be a delicate and fragile creature and it is this we must all recognize when their world is torn down, key people are removed from their life without rhyme or reason, and their dreams and identity of self is left in tatters and non-existent.
So while absolutely no one condones what happens to the children of troubled dads, we must spare a thought to the well being of our dads — just as we do with our mums and children in this modern age — in order to prevent the atrocities that unfold before our eyes in the media, or worse still, those lives that are lost in silence.
So whether it be dads saying so long through suicide or simply dying of a broken heart, it's often a slow death from being cut out of people's lives and made to feel redundant without sometimes any justification or wrong doing by the dad. There are also those dads that do make minor mistakes, like any developing human being, yet pay a huge price in being branded an outcast. While some dads can cope with this type of alienation, assassination and abandonment, others are fragile human beings who cannot.
So being a dad can be a hard life whether you toe the line with absolute perfection or not. Sometimes dads can regain a new sense of purpose, a new family perhaps, career or mission, and sometimes not. Sometimes dads are not psychologically resilient to the modern day beatings compared with the physical lashings to the slaves of old.
Man can be a delicate and fragile creature and it is this we must all recognize when their world is torn down, key people are removed from their life without rhyme or reason, and their dreams and identity of self is left in tatters and non-existent.
So while absolutely no one condones what happens to the children of troubled dads, we must spare a thought to the well being of our dads — just as we do with our mums and children in this modern age — in order to prevent the atrocities that unfold before our eyes in the media, or worse still, those lives that are lost in silence.
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