everything happens for a reason
Tonight is the perfect example of my stated subject. to a fucking T. nothing like seeing what my eyes witnessed tonight for a reality check. really made me think. and i'm posting these thoughts of mine, 1) because i can't sleep yet, my racing mind is not alloiwng it, and 2) because you all should hear this.
there is no denying that i am shaken. the image of that car careening into the forest is forever burned into my consience. inevitably, the question of "what if" arises. what if that was someone i knew? a friend? a family member my mother? i was immediatly prepared to hear the worst, scared i would be informing the 911 operator to forget the ambulence, and just send a coroner. it shocked me when
Danny came back up the hill, with this frail little waif-like girl in his arms, telling me "she's ok"... all i could do was stand there... shocked and awed, all at once... he was amazing, the way he didn't even hesitate to run down there and get that girl out of the smoking vechile... he showed me something i never thought i'd see, a courage that i've never witnessed first-hand like i did tonight...and a trillion thoughts hit me at once...
realize what you have. imagine your life. everything you love, everything you come in contact with, everything so routine, your life. every day. your life... then imagine it gone. gone. in one instant. in one second, it could all change. ending. all at once. this is what i saw, not happen. but all i could think was "it could have been so much worse." this girl is lucky to be alive, and only minorly injured. she could've died. right there. in one second...
this is what i saw. tonight was so random. no plans involved. spontaneous in all senses. if we hadn't been driving right behind her... if we left denny's five minutes before or after we did... if he was driving 10mph faster... we would'nt have seen it happen. no one would've found her till morning, or who knows when. she has no idea. none. it could've been so tragic. it wasn't, but it had the potential to be. it was so fucking random... the eeriness is still lingering in my shaking fingers... we witnessed something tonight that happens everyday, all over the world. people, stupid people, who think "it will never happen to me....." guess what. fuck. it will. it can. and it did tonight. all in a second's time. that's all it takes, people. one second.
all those corny high school drunk driving pamphlets and videos, which i thought were so boring and stupid at the time... "yeah yeah yeah"... i dont even care if i sound like one of those right now, really, i dont. the message is the same. it can happen to you. it will, if you are too proud, too thick-skulled to absorb the reality of this situation. i saw it. we saw it. right before our eyes, and i'll never forget it.
take heed to this post. everything happens for a reason. every minute detail of your lives, no matter where you stand in it... everything... everything happens for a reson. and that is the truth. i dont ever want to hear about something like this happening to ANY ONE OF YOU. be smart, be careful, and don't be a dick. i <3 you all. protect yourselves, and be safe... goodnite.
there is no denying that i am shaken. the image of that car careening into the forest is forever burned into my consience. inevitably, the question of "what if" arises. what if that was someone i knew? a friend? a family member my mother? i was immediatly prepared to hear the worst, scared i would be informing the 911 operator to forget the ambulence, and just send a coroner. it shocked me when
Danny came back up the hill, with this frail little waif-like girl in his arms, telling me "she's ok"... all i could do was stand there... shocked and awed, all at once... he was amazing, the way he didn't even hesitate to run down there and get that girl out of the smoking vechile... he showed me something i never thought i'd see, a courage that i've never witnessed first-hand like i did tonight...and a trillion thoughts hit me at once...
realize what you have. imagine your life. everything you love, everything you come in contact with, everything so routine, your life. every day. your life... then imagine it gone. gone. in one instant. in one second, it could all change. ending. all at once. this is what i saw, not happen. but all i could think was "it could have been so much worse." this girl is lucky to be alive, and only minorly injured. she could've died. right there. in one second...
this is what i saw. tonight was so random. no plans involved. spontaneous in all senses. if we hadn't been driving right behind her... if we left denny's five minutes before or after we did... if he was driving 10mph faster... we would'nt have seen it happen. no one would've found her till morning, or who knows when. she has no idea. none. it could've been so tragic. it wasn't, but it had the potential to be. it was so fucking random... the eeriness is still lingering in my shaking fingers... we witnessed something tonight that happens everyday, all over the world. people, stupid people, who think "it will never happen to me....." guess what. fuck. it will. it can. and it did tonight. all in a second's time. that's all it takes, people. one second.
all those corny high school drunk driving pamphlets and videos, which i thought were so boring and stupid at the time... "yeah yeah yeah"... i dont even care if i sound like one of those right now, really, i dont. the message is the same. it can happen to you. it will, if you are too proud, too thick-skulled to absorb the reality of this situation. i saw it. we saw it. right before our eyes, and i'll never forget it.
take heed to this post. everything happens for a reason. every minute detail of your lives, no matter where you stand in it... everything... everything happens for a reson. and that is the truth. i dont ever want to hear about something like this happening to ANY ONE OF YOU. be smart, be careful, and don't be a dick. i <3 you all. protect yourselves, and be safe... goodnite.