Sunday 17 February 2013

Pistorius Must Pay

How does it feel to take your legs off at night? Do you put them by the bed and strap them on if you need a pee? If you have a row with the girlfriend does she put them out of reach, so that you have to crawl on your belly to get them? What if she picks them up and moves them again? Where does that leave you?
I only ask because this is out of my experience. It is for most of us. Perhaps it was never experienced by Oscar Pistorius either. I hope so. I would not wish that on anyone. That feeling of helplessness though. He knows all about that.
Huge frustration and rage at the world, he felt that, as a toddler, a child, a young man.  Hard to imagine it ever really goes away. Without those legs within reach, this superb Olympic athlete is as helpless as a baby.
They say he shot his beautiful girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through the bathroom door. That he never meant to hurt her. His trial will bring all the evidence to be weighed.  Hopefully we will get the truth and Reeva"s family will get justice. They deserve no less. They have paid a huge price. Only Pistorius will keep on paying.

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