Alissa Guernsey's Murder

Recently, I stumbled upon an article which really touched my heart deep. An article about a girl named Alissa Guernsey. She was only 15 months old when she died.

A child as young as that, a time when they are most cuddly, how would anyone have the knack to even hurt her?! We wonder ....

There are a lot of nonsense on Facebook. Some said click like if you believe in god. Yes, like God is gonna put you in heaven for one click on Facebook! Dream on.

And there were some saying, click LIKE if you want to save this girl's life. A picture was included of a terminally ill child. So are there some sick people out there who actually said "Ok, I will give a million for her surgery if there is 1 million LIKE clicks on Facebook "

When you really THINK about it, it's just a self-driven thing in Facebook to make people click. Click LIKE if you do not want to go to hell. Well, I didn't, will I go to hell even though I've been a kind soul on earth??? Go figure.

Anyway, one of the click LIKE thing is this article on Alissa. See, I don't completely over see these clicking business. I still read the articles and some are worthwhile and some are worth your attention.

This on Alissa grabbed my attention so much that I started to google about her only to find out that her death was in 2009. The year my daughter was born.

I read her story about how she lost her dad and her custody was given to her cousin! Apparently at that time, Alissa's mother was charged for drug abused so much so that her children were removed from her and given to her cousin & murderer Christy Shaffer.

Her death, although a little late, had at first got her mother (Kelli Sprunger) hit rock bottom & then slowly regaining her life and getting herself close to God. Kelli regretted that her misuse of drugs have eventually caused her daughter to die in the hands of her own cousin.

I could just imagine how she must have felt and I am proud of her for wanting to change for the better. Her wakeup call came a little harsh and a little too late but she still has other kids that she now has a chance to take care of.

Christy was supposed to be sentenced to 10 years in jail. Out of which, 6 years were suspended. And due to good behaviour, Christy was released only after 77 days in jail.

Is that justice? Just imagine Alissa's cries for help when she was hit again and again. And no one was there to help her. She was in pain...

If you are a mother, you can relate to the loss of this beautiful baby. If you would, instead of just clicking LIKE, please go to the link below and let’s join hands to have a petition on this. Please, let’s make a difference.

 http://community.babycenter.com/post/a37196974/alissa_guernsey_needs_your_help_child_abusemurder_trigger

P.S I Love You

Sometimes in life you do realize people do things which you wouldn't do. It can be anything at all. Just because certain people do things a certain way doesn't make it wrong or right. It's just preference. It was funny but I overheard this while waiting for a cab

"Once upon a time, it was so hard to communicate that the royals or star crossed lovers in China communicated by using secret messages through a cake - Mooncake. These days even married couples find it so hard to communicate with each other that they use a medium called Facebook!  'I love you honey' They would write. Why can't they say it to each other instead?"

Good question but I didn't dare to intervene her deep thoughts which was out loud.

"Shah Jahan built Taj Mahal for his beloved just to declare to the world how much he loved his wife. Yet these days, people do that on Facebook. It became a little embarrassing. Mark my word, people will start proposing on Facebook too."

Hmmm, maybe people already have. I'm not that active as I should be with facebook or twitter. My husband recently started twittering for his business and it works for him.

I guess it works in some and not in others. But in a way, I have no clue why this lady was sulking over this issue but I guess I can understand where she's coming from.

Too often you see people declaring how great their husbands/ wives/ partners are on facebook yet it can be far from truth. Recently, marriage counsellors claimed that those who declare to the world about how romantic their partners are usually get that treatment so rarely that they tend to be the ones making a big deal out of it.

According to them, those who actually have a blissful romantic marriage rarely seen declaring to the world or even talking about it since for them it’s a norm. In fact people will realise themselves that these couples are blissful with the way they interact with each other without having to prove anything to the world.

Why are people so keen to tell the world that they are so lucky? Again the marriage counsellors said that this is a way to convince themselves that they are how they want to be or wished to be. I don’t see anything wrong with people declaring their love in public. I won’t do it myself but I think there are some out there who wouldn’t mind sharing their lives with others.

Again, there is nothing wrong with that. Well, not to this lady in the queue. Her friend who was with her, seemed too afraid to give an opinion and I shouldn’t be caught eavesdropping! So I didn’t say anything. She’s obviously upset about something or at somebody. Her friend took out her iphone & was fiddling with it for a bit.

Then the sulky lady’s phone beeped an alert. With a straight face, her friend said “I just posted something on facebook”

Sulky lady read it aloud “P.S I Love You” ????