What is it about becoming a parent that shreds your heart at moments like these? We had a funeral for a friend's young son on Friday. And it takes you a long time before you can sleep again at night, at which point you start feeling really vulnerable and become a major pain in your kids' life trying to control everything that might bring them harm.

On my first delivery my OB-GYN
congratulated me and said that my life would forever be altered by worrying about my children.

And its true in the back of my mind I'm always on the look out in case something could go wrong.

Its part of being a parent and no matter how much care we may take sometimes things can drastically go wrong.

As a rule I try not to think about it but tragedies make it hard for me to deny such facts.

Oh that pic is so sad - broke my heart to see it. sigh - being a parent eh?

I don't know which is more sad : An adult animal grieving over its dead offspring or that this sight was available for public viewing and photography.

Good lord, that's depressing. In a quick reflection on why something so natural should be so depressing all I can come up with is that the elephant was forced to grieve in public, she had nowhere else to go. Normally, I'd assume she would be able to move her loved one over to a private place.

When have we ever afforded animals privacy? In India we are quite nonchalant about grief and death, goes with being overpopulated:(