Monday, October 21, 2002

An Email that made me go into my "deep thinking"

It will be remembered as one of the most confounding missing-persons cases.

In August of 1930, forty-five -year-old Joseph Crater waved good-bye to friends after an evening meal in a New York restaurant, flagged down a taxi, and rode off. He was never seen or heard from again.

Fifty years of research has offered countless theories but no conclusions. Since Crater was a successful New York Supreme Court Judge, many have suspected murder, but a solid lead had never been found. Other options have been presented: kidnapping, Mafia involvment, even suicide.

A search of his apartments revealed one clue. It was a note attached to a check, and both were left for his wife. The check was for a sizable amount and the note simply read, "I am very weary. Love, Joe."

The note could have been nothing but more than a thought after a hard day. Or it could have meant a great deal more - the epitaph of a despairing man.

Weariness is tough. I don't mean the physical weariness that comes from mowing the lawn or the mental weariness that follows a hard day of decisions and thinking. No, the weariness that attacked Judge Carter is much worse. It's the weariness that comes just before you give up. That feeling of honest desperation. It's the dispirited father, the abandoned child, or the retiree with time on his hands *(or a student in one of Singapore's junior college) It's that stage in life where motivation disappears: the children grow up, a job is lost, a wife dies *(or another exam failed) The result is weariness- deep, lonely, frustrated weariness.

PiGz ^(oo)^ 9:42 am

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