So, with sad news at the end of the week right before my usual time to update, I had a notification to call my wife’s parents as soon as possible and found that her sister’s journey had come to an end by her own hand. I processed for a moment, than delivered the news to my wife. We had two to three days of upset chaos in getting ourselves and dog on a plane to the States as soon as possible while not completely blowing off everyone in Zurich, but finding many plans and obligations suddenly cancelled. To my understanding, the journey’s end was a result of a gun, drinking, and impulsiveness, and there’s only speculation as far as the real reasons or rationale behind it which is not a discussion for here. My thoughts on it here are that everyone was too focused on their own lives (me included), and this was the resulting casualty. It is very important to recognize that a healthy journey is not completed alone, and does not result in the end of another’s. I can only hope my journey in the future leads to impacting more people positively and to someday fully visit the idea of empathy engineering and spread it to others. It’s hard though, because these idealistic and hopeful endeavors are not the ones that are not support from the top and from the bottom people do not like change. It’s with a heavy heart I continue my journey along the path of Western civilization while at the same time trying to improve the system from the inside.