From hopeless position to higher purpose;
step inside the Matthew Maher story.
Those who have experienced grief know that it cannot be folded into a neat little package of norms. Each individual is different, and it is therefore impossible to predict how a person will respond when the wound of heartache resides just below the surface...
"What could you possibly have to do that's so important at Mid-State?" One of the new inmates on my tier gave this scoffing, skeptical response to me when I said that I was not going outside for recreation because I had some important 'stuff' to tend to this morning..."
With curiosity, many people ask me: How is your time spent in prison? I would rearrange that inquiry and reply: "Prison is spent on how one views the time." It is really simple when we are able to see things from the right perspective...
Jan. 7 will mark three years to the day that I woke up in my own bed, but went to sleep that night in a prison cell. I began the day in a suit, but ended the day in a jumpsuit. Jan. 7 was sentencing day for me. The figures of 5-to-10 years tossed around by the lawyers mattered less to me than the sentences I would speak to the family of my victim, Hort Kap. Those 5-to-10 minutes were foremost in my mind...
Ten years later, Jayson Williams still thinks about the shooting every day. The former NBA All-Star replays the night over and over in his head, wishing he could change the past and bring back Costas Christofi, the limousine driver he accidentally killed on Feb. 14, 2002...
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