One of my best friends is a teacher at the school where this tragedy struck. She commented on a group chat, saying she's numb. Then she told of what happened, it felt like my heart was ripped right out of my chest! I was in town, supposed to do some grocery shopping in my lunch break but after that news I could barely concentrate. It took me back to 2004 when I saw a little girl run over by a car in a busy parking lot. Lucky for her, she survived; but I remember going into a sort of 'trance', everything around me was muted and all I saw was the commotion around the car and the girl and the mother's shrieking. Back to yesterday, it's absolutely accurate what my friend said, you simply go numb when you see something like that! And then reality kicks in with hysteria by it's side!
All I wanted to do was climb through my phone to go hold her tight, to be there for all the children who saw the accident, I just wanted to wrap them all up in my arms and tell them it was going to be alright. But the sad thing is that it isn't going to be alright again for a very long time!
Whoever reads this, please just pray - Pray for the loss of the parents, pray for strength for the teachers at that school and pray for the children who probably won't get counselling as it is an impoverished area, pray that God's love will comfort them
http://www.metronewspaper.co.za/2012/09/11/two-primary-school-children-killed-by-truck/
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