Fragile

Life is like that. Fragile. About a month ago I noticed a robin building a nest on the thin railing of the aluminum patio awning. I knew it wasn't a great place for a nest. Husband though not happy left the nest and then the wind blew it down. I kept it because it was exquisite. If you have never seen one up close , they are best made nest I have ever seen and the most messy as they build.
About two hours the robins were back up there building again a slightly smaller nest, but equally as awesome.
I read about nesting time and low and behold three eggs appeared then the rains of the week of my birthday. Friday night was a horrendous night winds and rains. The whole night it blew and the rain was so hard.
In the morning we woke up and the nest was still up there but it was so dang windy and my birthday.Within an hour the nest had fallen to the ground and two of the three babies throw down to the cement. The last egg I have no clue where the wind blew it.
Our concern were with the babies on the ground. One barley breathing and the other dead. The poor Mother and Dad were so upset. The Mom wouldn't leave she even sat over the living baby trying to comfort him. As she would leave she would go to the second one. It was so sad to watch.
The nest had toppled and rolled under some chairs on the patio.
We put the nest up and the baby in the nest. The little one died and the Mom was beside herself. So was the Dad as well tried to help.
The last two weeks we have see the sparrows leave the nest and the morning doves
grow. But I am said when I see the Robins. Knowing how hard and the loss they suffered.
Tonight I also learned a friend lost a young Husband to Leukemia. They tried everything to fight this dam disease. Like nature sometimes the strong though fragile suffer till the end. And He was so strong.
Life every form is fragile. Then I hear people talk of such trivial things and waste the time they have it saddens me. Life is to short.