Choices that we make...

One more bites the dust. 
One more Facebook Status update happens.
Once more we all say "RIP the brave ones" 
Once more we are all..."Oh! so proud to be Air force Wives." 
Once more we all "Feel" for the families. 
Once more we all pray for the brave ones.
Once more the nation feels proud of the IAF bravehearts

But all this... 

Not before another prayer goes up "Thank God its not my husband, brother, friend." In that exact order. 

Not before the news renders you strengthless to pick up the phone. 

Not before the buzzing in your ear stops from the surge of the blood to our brains. 

Not before you put yourselves in the wives' shoes. Thinking, "This could have been me."

Not before you rake your brain thinking who you can call to find out who it was. 

Not before any of these. 

We are all human. 

We all, even in the most panicked state, know what we want to hear and what we don't. 

Even before the phone is answered. 

When we know that we have the answer that we wanted to hear, only then do we go back to 

"Feeling for our brethren..."