Hackers and Stay at Zone Moms
After I posted my blog, I checked my messages. One of my
contacts had sent a warning that she’d been hacked. She admitted she’d been careless.
It reminded me of a family I knew whose lives had been hacked
by a drunk driver.
A soccer mom had stopped for drinks with her girlfriends.
She drank a little too much, but decided she’d be OK taking back roads
home. She hit a couple out for a walk in
the country.
The wife lingered in a coma for a month before dying. Her
husband lived, but the tragedy hacked into his psyche, changing the outgoing,
cheerful man he’d been into a lonely widower.
The son was my client. He got lost for a decade, bouncing
from odd to job to odd job, moving across the country, picking up a criminal
record along the way. It took years for him to fix his hack.
Xanax™ hacked into his sister’s life, prescribed by a family
doctor to help her through her mother’s funeral. Her brother described her as a
‘stay at zone mom’ because she was always zoned out on benzos and muscle
relaxers.
I thought tragedy hacked into many people’s lives, but less
dramatic forces were more likely to affect me.
Anger, frustration, boredom, self-righteousness, ego, misinformation,
and a host of other negative influences, readily available in the real world
and online, could hack into my day,
changing me from the person I wanted to be to someone completely different. I
had to be careful.
Today I’ll be careful not to let negative influences hack into
my day.
Fawlty Showers 2
is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you
might know is purely coincidental.
Other works by Ken Montrose are available at:
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