The Dark and the Light

That Day

Have you ever experienced a pain so severe, that you can't feel anything at all? When so much bad has happened that it's impossible to see any good in life? It's often hard for people who have experienced this to talk about their suffering, but I hope that this will help me move on.
It was the summer of my 19th birthday and I was home visiting from college. I had an average family with two parents and two siblings and although we were always arguing with each other, we all loved one another dearly. When I was little, my mother forced all of us to write in our own journals every night as a way to sort out our thoughts and feelings and make us emotionally healthy individuals. We had all filled over 5 journals by that time.
On the second night of my visit, we all piled into the car to go to our traditional Friday night family dinner.