Short story: A suicide eats into John's heart, as to why it had occurred

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John was walking along a lonely beach on the sands, when someone passed him, going the opposite way. John never noticed him until he had passed, and realising that someone had just passed him, he looked back over his shoulder, curious as to who it might have been, who just passed him. The middle man aged looked to be dressed differently than most, in a robe, funny attire for the beach, John though to himself then. John thought nothing more about this meeting, or more non-meeting, until he was watching the news that night, and he saw of how a man's body had been found on the beach, washed up in a rock-pool. He was wearing a robe. It was indeed the man who John had passed early that morning on the beach himself. John grimaced, another life gone. Why did he do that, he thought to himself, why? Alan, the man who had committed suicide that morning, had been overwhelmed by the death of his wife, killed during a house break-in, the day before. Now, John knew that one who has forgotten God in their life, is always closer to death that other people who keep God in their lives are. So, John, was surprised when he saw that this just suicided man, had been a spiritual teacher, in the Sufi religion. His pain must have been great for it to have overcome his religious beliefs, like that John had thought to himself then. The outer pain had reached inwardly into him, and killed his inner spirit too. He could not bear to carry the love of her memory within him, and so he destroyed himself, to avoid, having to do so. It was an unnatural death, for a natural love. John put his thoughts aside, then, and went back down to his local beach for yet another walk. He liked both early morning, and late evening walks. God's love is at the heart of all things, even such suffered losses, and John thought to himself, as he walked along now, surely that man, could have seen past the death of his wife, into the love that always remains behind all acts, as every act, connects back to love, in some way, otherwise, God would not be behind all such acts either, and God is behind each act, wanting to explain them to us in his way. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com John usually loved his morning, and evening walks, on the beach, except for this morning, that is, but that was more in hindsight, as he had enjoyed the walk, at its time.