Think back over the past three days and everything you've done since 4pm on Friday.
The meals you ate, the quiet drinks with friends, the kids' sports games, the weekend chores.
The families of 29 missing men did nothing but wait.
For the loved ones of those trapped in the Pike River coal mine, the families in New Zealand, Australia and Scotland, there's been nothing to do but hope, pray and wait in desperation for news.
But there wasn't any news.
When the Canterbury earthquake struck a few months ago, it was immediately tweeted, texted, phoned and emailed all over the world.
Now, the world's attention is on us again but there's nothing but silence from the mine.
For families, rescuers and mine officials, that lack of contact and information must be almost unbearable.
For the media, trying to tell this story, it has meant treading a difficult line.
More reporters than the West Coast has ever seen all scrambled for stories about men whose names - and fates - were not yet known.
Television news reports were extended to allow more coverage of a disaster about which almost nothing could be said.
And, at the centre of it, the families living through the worst weekend of their lives.
There are families here in Hawke's Bay, too, who know something of what that's like. Those who, during the Napier siege, found themselves at the centre of a media storm, before even knowing what had happened to their loved one.
It's not easy. It's the news story everyone wants to know about, but the one thing the community doesn't want to talk about.
That's why we need leaders such as Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn, who speaks openly and honestly about what the community is feeling.
It can't be easy being the voice for families going through something like this, but it seemed like Mayor Kokshoorn probably nailed it yesterday when he spoke of their continuing hope. "No one's come to us yet and said there's no hope, so until that happens, we're all in there together," he said.
"We're one big family."
Editorial: Hope binds mining family together
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