1 Year Aniversery

A life. So precious. So cared for. And gone within in seconds.

Yesterday, January 10th, was the one year anniversery of a car crash in my community. It involved teenagers who had most likely been racing on a major road. One of the cars crashed. Three lives were taken. Gone in fire and flames, into smoke and ashes, and disappeared from the face of the earth as if no more would become of them.

A year since that day doesn't come lightly. It's hard to hold out against such a terrible thought. Those three teenagers were young, only high schoolers, no older than many people in the small community. That road is so clsoe to me, I'm not even a mile away, and I didn't particularly know any of those kids, but it still makes me feel sad.

It was as if something had been torn out of me. I'm very fortunate that I have only expierienced so few tragic things. Things are so precious, people, relationships, money, and so on. Things we should never take for granted and enjoy till depleted or gone. Nature has a way with taking things away from us so fast. Too fast like water slipping through our fingers.

So I may be a few days late with talking about this incident, but if you drive, or when you drive, go no more than the speed limit. SLOW DOWN! Save a life. Buckle up too. If anything, go below the speed limit because in all truth, slow and steady wins the race of life. You can't be in the fast lane forever, even though sometimes it feels as if the years pass by.

Take some time and think that someone close and dear to you, or anyone around, is close to being gone. Anyone at anytime because of car accidents of going over the speed limit. This event may not happen close to you and not close to your heart, but you have to have some damn consideration for our world. We're talking about our world's future because its fate is held in our children's and their children's hands.

So in their memory...do these things at least once this year...actually, please do this everyday

1. If someone has had too much to drink, call a cab or drive them home.
2. Go under the speed limit.
3. Don't talk or text on your cell phone and drive.
4. Wear a seatbelt, please.
5. Obey all traffic laws.
6. Don't race, slow and steady wins the race of life.
7. Don't drink or smoke while driving.
8. Don't try to make a yellow light.
9. Be considerate to other drivers.
10. Be thankful after you've reach your destination.