I just received sad news from home, that a girl, Jessica Weir, whom I knew through the contra community tragically died in a car accident last Saturday.
Since I have been in India, 2 people from communities that I am well connected with have passed away, in horrible ways. A close friend of mine just received news of a sad death by brain tumor from home, and another friend has a father in critical care due to severe fire burns.
It doesn't matter what people say, when they tell you that when you go away, you will come back to the same things and you will be the changed person, wondering why everything is still the same.
And in the huge, world picture this may be the case.
But for those that these tragedies directly affect... their lives are changed forever, too.
Life doesn't matter where you are and how worried you are about missing things from home.
Things change. Life goes on.
Abroad or home, the news still hurts.