A short YouTube interview excerpt (uploaded by Jacqueline Elliott) in which an interviewer asks an interviewee about witnessing their father's murder. The exchange highlights trauma and the interviewer's admiration for the interviewee's resilience and grateful outlook.
You saw your father get murdered?
Yes, ma'. Am.
And you have such an incredible personality. You're like one of the most grateful people that I know. You just have a different perspective in life. What did you do at your age to be where you were?
It happened so sudden, and you're just like. You're shell shocked. You have to move on. You're running out of money. I think what pulled me out of being able to just, like, sit there and sulk about it and be like a victim to it is I had a responsibility to rise up to. And it was like, well, there's nobody else going to do it. Just figure out a way to get the family out of, you know, the shitstorm that we're in. And in the darkest of clouds, if you look for a little bit of a silver lining like you, you'll find one. It may take a little bit of time, it may take a month, it may take a year, may take 10 years, but as long as you look for it, like, you're not going to get consumed in the darkness of the situation.