Ahmad Paige was on the phone when the girlfriend he was trying to break up with drove her car into the river and killed herself.

I simply cannot imagine going through that. Some of you may recall that I was on the phone with my wife when she and my two girls got into a car accident last December or so. Exclamations, noise, then screams. A horrible few seconds to register what’s happening.

And they were okay. Paige has the added burdens of death, finality, and (undeserved) guilt.

This brings Paige’s marijuana possession just a few weeks later into a bit more context. We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. We must be careful what we say about these guys. You never know when one of them is going through something like this or battling cancer like Chris Lofton was last year at this time. Prayers for Paige.

Can’t think of anything else to say.

Death is that one abyss we never look into if we can help it. But when we’re forced to, it can disrupt (or even destroy) the fragile balance we have on our sense of normalcy. I agree; it’s hard to be very judgmental over his incident after something like that. When we didn’t know about the incident, the marijuana seemed like just another immature act by a team member. It might simply have been an immature act, but it might also have been a reaction.

Either way, it sounds like he’s taking the steps needed to carry on.

Prayers for Paige, indeed. And for her family.

I got the first 2 sentences of the article…