Friday, October 17, 2008

Putting things into prospective

There are events that happen that make us realize that we take things for granted. Unfortunately, it usually takes a tragedy to put things into prospective.

On wednesday a 15 year old was hit by a car right in front of my workplace while walking through the crosswalk. He was going to meet his mother who works in the same buliding as I do. Him and the driver of the car were killed. According to witness she ran a red light and made no attempt to stop and she went through the crosswalk hitting the boy and 2 other cars.

http://www.dailynews.com/search/ci_10731332?IADID=Search-www.dailynews.com-www.dailynews.com

It makes you realize how quickly our lives can change. Most of the people I work with (including me) walk accross the street to Target all the time and that's how I leave work also. It could have easily been me or someone I know crossing the street.

It makes you want to hold your child and protect him from everything in the world. I didn't know the boy or his mother, but somehow I feel connected. Almost like I hurt for her. I can sort of feel the pain that she is going through.

Do you ever recover from losing a child? How do you move on and function? I don't know if you are ever really the same after something like that.

Please, everyone say a pray for this family.

2 comments:

Amy said...

Oh man, that's really sad. I will say a prayer for them right now. That poor women.

Anonymous said...

there will be so much pain for that family and the family of the Driver i am sending up a pray for all the familys.