Good and bad... life is never simple.

[stormyangel]

I may whine on LJ, but there are far, far worse things to be in. Like a terrible accident. On Sunday I found out our old team leader, Mariam, got hit by a train on Friday night. One of the sales managers was there too and he was killed. He was just 21. She's in intensive care and apparently the doctors said she wouldn't make it. But she's

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[chewbeaker]

aw honey, I can understand how must that be affecting you :(

*huge hugs*

[stormyangel]

*hugs* Thank you honey!

[stormyangel]

*hugs* Thank you. I know, it's so sad. :(

[giddyfeet]

It was a really terrible accident but that aside if they were drunk and purposefully went to a train track/station then they were acting irresponsibly. That is not to say they deserved what happened to them but that they are responsible for their own actions. What we have to consider is that they may not have only killed themselves but people on the train too (did they?). A situation like that is never just about one (or two in this case) people, sadly :(

Reading this however a lesson jumped out needing to be learned. They spent months saving up to fullfil their dreams (going travelling) only to have this happen. Life is very short and fragile and we need to start living our day to day dreams as well as aiming for something higher.

[stormyangel]

They were going home - and how many people off their faces get on trains or buses? They should drink more responsibly - I really can't stand that it's still far too customary to get wasted and be completely unable to know what you're doing. I suppose I just don't think of it like that. Only the waste of life. If they were driving or something they would have been in the wrong, for sure.

As it is, I do agree with the rest of your comment. Life is so short and so uncertain and we need to make the most of it right now.

On that note, I will come and visit you next week, if that's ok? We don't need to do much, we could just go for lunch. But I could spend the day in Southampton. ^_^

[giddyfeet]

What I am finding hard to understand is how you go from waiting on the platform for a train (or getting off on a platform) to being under the front of the train? Either it was done on purpose and was a suicide pact (and we certainly don't know what goes on in the minds of others) or they were mucking about on the platform. It sounds like the former to be honest, because if they were mucking about I could see one ending up under a train but not both... unless one was trying to save the other but then it sounds all very quick... :S

Do you really want to come to Southampton?! There is nothing here! I could come up to London for the day if you'd prefer? I need a reason to get out of this godforsaken place!

[tayles]

*hugs* You don't need faith to pray - as long as your thoughts are with them.

[stormyangel]

*hugs* Thank you. Its funny - it hurts because I don't believe prayers get heard, let alone answered. But just knowing that everyone's thoughts are with them as well as mine is a comfort.

[giddyfeet]

I have prayed about 5 times in my life and 4 of those times my prayers were answered, even though the thing I wanted was quite extreme (I only pray when desperate!). I am not religious and the only god I believe in is scientific so it makes no sense to me that prayers would be answered but I like that sort of coincidence!

I haven't thought about praying about my current situation but maybe its time I had a chat with him upstairs.

[stormyangel]

Well, if you want to bring science in, 5 times is not a large enough statistical sample! :P

I think that prayers working is either coincidence or a self-fulfilling prophecy. I only do it to make myself feel better, in the same way I wish on stars. It's oddly comforting.

[melloncollieclo]

omg thats awful. *hugs*

[stormyangel]

I know! *hugs back* Thank you. Hope you're ok at the moment!