There’s a time when politicians should know to keep silent. We all want answers to the horrific attack on the dance club in Southport that left three children dead and five others critically injured. We want to make sense of the senseless. It’s a normal coping mechanism. We need to feel as if we are in control. Even when it’s obvious that we aren’t.
Because sometimes the answers are slow to reveal themselves. Sometimes there are no answers. Not ones we want, certainly. The trick is to be able to wait. To live with the feelings, however unbearable. To endure the tragedy. Not to try to will it away. Grief can be a waiting game.
