A Melbourne business man is missing, the newspapers have been reporting the story for a couple of days. It’s distressing, a loved and loving man has failed to come home.

His wife said in interview “You just can’t imagine what it is like, it is just unbearable.”
I can imagine a little of what her distress might be like, I remember what it is like to wonder for four days where somebody is. It is unbearable.

‘‘…completely and utterly out of character’’, said the business man’s wife on the radio today. It was out of character for Mottsu as well, it happened only once.

Waiting and searching for someone who is not coming home is heartbreaking torture.

I watched the local news story with family last night.
I bit my lip as details were reported, and someone said “It must be foul play”.
I said “It might be suicide”
“No”, the other said, “he was just back from a business trip”
“People who travel on business trips die by suicide” I said.
“He had a nice car” the other said.
I said “People with nice cars die by suicide.”
“No” said the other, who may have forgotten Mottsu’s death, “it doesn’t make sense”.

Suicide does not make sense, and this case may not be suicide; the business man is missing. There are some similarities with Mottsu’s disappearance. I hope this man, who I don’t know, makes it home.

The story makes me sad.