Quote From: shmigelzYou have to ALSO remember some things just happen for the sake of happening. No matter IF this particular family 'just happen to extend' their sons curfrew an extra 2 hours or not. When its our time to go, its our time to go. Unfortunately its the simply, yet harsh fact and reality of the situation...
I can remember, even today like it was yesterday, it was now 8 yrs ago when our hockey team was ready to take to the ice when one our our team members was running late for the game. He was a nice, quiet person and an excellent team/hockey player, a popular kid in high school as well. It just happen that, THAT SPECIFIC night he was out driving with a girl (who was also a good friend of mine, a popular and attractive girl in school) when they were coming into town, she was driving at the time, it was a regular 1/2 ton drunk and they were on a gravel road and connects to a normal asphalt road when she hit some 'pot holes' I guess you could call them, it was a good stretch of these pot holes in the road that IF you hit them you could lose control of the vehicle that you were driving. The poor guy who's real name was Trevor just recovered from a BAD broken leg injury and was so excited to come back to play hockey with all his buds, when my other friend who was a female and her real name is Jennifer lost control of the truck on the gravel road when she came across these pot holes in the road. As a result she lost control, the truck left the road and Trevor was thown from the truck, as it happened by amazing luck the truck happened to roll on 'him' after he was thrown from the vehicle and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Jennifer did survive the accident and to this day she is a great individual who is married and Im sure still thinks of that night.
We were all just about ready to take to the ice when the news came to use that our good friend and teammate was killed in a truck accident. I instantly remember just standing up at the time and feeling my grip on my stick when I heard what happened. All I could do was look down at the ground, staring at nothing and just being empty inside, I guess I didnt know what or how to feel as it was the first friend I ever lost and to hear it that way before going out on the ice infront of alot of people.....
I guess the point of the story is that you never know when or how it can happen. Vehicles are and can be a deadly weapon, even if the intentions are purely innocent. It was just a bad situation and a good friend who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. I know I'll never get the opportunity to celebrate another goal with him or another championship and that really sucks. Life is so precious and yet the human body so fragile.. I just with street racing punks would realize this.....
I have to date lost 4 GOOD FRIENDS due to accidents in cars/trucks and Im still only so young myself. Even for myself I had a close call when me, my brother, my mom, and my dad were actually driving back from the USA (Montana) Great Falls actually, to Calgary, Canada. We flew from there because the flights to Virgina were sooo much more affordable but because of the time of the flight we were all so tired, that all I remember was falling asleep in the back seat, and the a few 'brief' flashes or memories and then waking up hanging/suspended in my seatbelt. As it turned out we ALL fell asleep including my mother who was driving, to make a long story short, she happened to wake up just as the car was going into the ditch, swerved too hard, came back on the double lane, lost control went in the middle ditch of the 4 lane - seperated highway, the car started to roll repeartly and continued to roll and came to a stop ALL the way on the other 2 lanes of the highway that were going the other way. JUST by sheer luck no vehicles or semi tracker trailer trucks were coming at that time or we ALL would of been killed instantly. As it happen we all survived, even my mom who's neck was wedged between the steering wheel and the windshield... Thank-god cause it sooo simply could have all gone soooo bad for all of us...........
When its your time, its just your time. That's it, that's all. Nothing more I guess I can say.
Yes, when the time comes, it will happen. That is why we are not to know exactly when or how..
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