An acquaintance of mine lost a child a few weeks back, and I am just now finding out about it.

That makes me sad. Twice.

Once because of his loss, because it was completely unexpected.

And to a far lesser degree, once because I was so out-of-the-loop I didn’t catch it.

But why am I feeling guilty about it? There’s nothing I could have done, and there’s nothing I could have added in support that his family wasn’t already getting from others, who are even closer to him.

Should I have been paying more attention? More >