forgive the ramble, but this always disturbs me, and writing helps me deal with it.
the frequency of drivers fleeing the scene of accidents lately is VERY ALARMING,...you see/hear about it all the time now.
I have seen more death in my lifetime than I think anyone ever should: grew up in the hood (west oakland) and saw my first murder at the age of 6, I lost 26 friends in motorcycle/car accidents/shootings, OD's, and 2 suicides, then I was a paramedic(9 years), and then a TV news videographer(12 years) so I have spent many hours thinking about death, as it was so prevalent in my life for so many years.
I ride motorcycles, and bicycles, and I have a vintage mustang,.... I am building a bonneville streamliner motorcycle (125cc=200mph project) and I always figured when it was my time, that I would be on or in one of those. and if you think about it a while, I'd rather die doing something I love, than lying in a hospital bed for 7 years or something like that.
we all are going to die someday, we just don't know when,........I'm not particularly religious, but I hope for an afterlife, and again if you think about it there can only be two outcomes in death, either there is something after we die, and we get to go on, or there isn't, in which case your dead, and wont care, so I no longer fear death in any way, in fact in some ways I almost catch myself looking forward to the time, as I'll finally get an answer to one of lifes oldest questions.
my heart always goes out to the families of the deceased, they have the hardest time, and I have seen it up close and personal WAY too many times, I hope the family of that guy finds some way to be strong, and go on, I know how hard that really is.
after I had several friends die one night in a senseless car crash, someone told me something that changed my life forever,..I didn't get it at first, but after thinking about it, and then APPLYING it, I am truly happy and blessed with many, many gifts:
"the only way to get through this, and make tomorrow better is to give up all hope for a better past"
I hope the truck that knocks me into the afterlife, stops and owns up for what they did, thats just gotta stop.
nuff sed
R.I.P