“Jake my 12 year old was close enough to see the flashes. He was supposed to be at the finish line but wasn't able to quite get there. He was with a friend but no adult. So lucky…. Others weren't so lucky. 20 minutes of not being able to reach him… just typing this is bringing back unrelenting tears and a giant knot in my throat. “
Zack Assarian – loan officer Fairway/Needham, father, son, husband, friend…
By reading this you are now 6 degrees away from Jake who had such a terrifying day and his dad Zack who was equally frightened and from all of us here in the greater Boston area. With today’s intensely connected world we are all just 6 degrees away from everyone… We all live in Boston, or Iraq, Oklahoma City or Gaza we are all connected and we must hold strong together, honor our differences and shed our fear of those differences…
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As actor/comedian Patton Oswalt said in his now viral Facebook post:
“This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness," he wrote.
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"But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
"So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'the good outnumber you, and we always will.' "
THE GOOD OUTNUMBER YOU AND WE ALWAYS WILL!!!
With Peace your friends at Fairway
