Comments on: 11/04/16 – Another Day http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6315 Tue, 20 May 2025 03:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeffrey Nonken http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6315&cpage=1#comment-294145 Jeffrey Nonken Sat, 05 Nov 2016 00:42:24 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6315#comment-294145 My wife is the daughter of two Holocaust Survivors who met after the war. Her mother's first husband died in the camps. Sometimes she feels a touch of survivor guilt, because she never would have existed had he lived. She was only born <i>because</i> somebody else died. And he only died because a lot of other people died. My answer to you both is the same: How terrible would this world be if something were <i>so evil</i> that nothing good could come out of it? My wife is the daughter of two Holocaust Survivors who met after the war. Her mother’s first husband died in the camps.

Sometimes she feels a touch of survivor guilt, because she never would have existed had he lived. She was only born because somebody else died. And he only died because a lot of other people died.

My answer to you both is the same: How terrible would this world be if something were so evil that nothing good could come out of it?

]]> By: Pete Rogan http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6315&cpage=1#comment-294144 Pete Rogan Sat, 05 Nov 2016 00:27:15 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=6315#comment-294144 Sometimes it's just resentment that parts of me continue to behave as if nothing had happened, making the entire episode feel like spoiled self-indulgence, another unwanted and unneeded emotional intrusion. Oh, yeah, the disgust of not yet being dust. Sometimes it’s just resentment that parts of me continue to behave as if nothing had happened, making the entire episode feel like spoiled self-indulgence, another unwanted and unneeded emotional intrusion. Oh, yeah, the disgust of not yet being dust.

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