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Life is full of disappointments.

Sometimes we don't look how we want to look, feel how we want to feel, or get what we

want to have. This can apply to so many different facets that there are just too many to even list. However,

it can be assumed that every person has experienced this and have at one point in your life

desired something and just haven't gotten it.

Another beautiful part of life is moving on from this desire and realizing, hey, it's okay,

because that is just how life goes. We have the choice to either appreciate what we are given

and make the best of it, or we have the choice to not feel that

way. At least that's how some of us think. Now I understand sometimes feelings are uncontrollable

due to a slew of different reasons, but for the sake of generalization, I think you can get

what I'm trying to allude to here. For others with less

reasoning, compassion, or empathy, the notion of not getting what they want or not being able to

do something that they believe that they should be able to do. Well, that is a whole different

story and a whole different thought process. As we have talked about time and time again on this show,

it is hard to understand what goes through a person's mind

when they cross that line between right and wrong.

While we speak of this topic incessantly,

we may never truly understand why people do the things that they do.

You're listening to The Apex and the Abyss, and this is the story of Lauren Giddings.

No one has seen her since Saturday. I haven't seen anything. I mean, I've always seen noise outside, but it's just people walking by pretty much.

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