The actor from Glee, Cory Monteith, had just died. The Glee creators aired the Quarterback episode where Monteith’s character, Finn Hudson, dies. I’m sitting on the couch with my twelve-year-old daughter watching this emotional scene of Finn’s mom crying after losing her son, and the dichotomy that Monteith has actually died makes the scene almost unbearably grief-stricken. The actress playing Finn Hudson’s mom starts her dialogue, tearful and struggling with her breath, she says in a melancholy voice:
“How do parents go on when they lose a child? You know when I’d see that stuff on the news, I’d turn it off cause it was just too horrible to think, but I would always think how do they wake up everyday? I mean how do they breath, honey, but you do wake up, and for just a second you forget. And, then, oh you remember, and it’s like getting that call again and again, every time, you don’t get to stop waking up…”