So today was a normal day, except for the assembly we had. It wasn't a stupid pep assembly like last week. This one actually had a point. It was called "Alive @ 25" (I donno if it had the at symbol instead of the word, I put that in there cuz I wanted to.) It was similar to "The Power of 1" thing from last year, with that one dude, Chuck, lol. This time it mostly had to do with drving and when it goes wrong. The movie part of it was uber cheesey and stuff, they mostly had words like "GOALS!" and "LOVE!" written all over the sceen. Lol. The guy's voice reminded me of the Gilmore Girls episode when Luke buys the tapes and books about love so he can become a "lady's man" and win Lauralai's heart (I have no idea how to spell her name.) "I have a friend, let's call him. . . Philip." Lol. So yes, the movie was dumb. But the people speaking afterward were not. They had the kid, I forget his name, who was texting a friend and killed the biker? He was talking about how his girlfriend screamed at him to get his attention but by then it was too late. How scary would it be being that girl and watching a guy just die when you had no control whatsoever over it? She most likely didn't even have time to tell him not to text his friend while he was driving either.
Then there was the mother of the boy and his friend who died along with another girl who were in that accident on Ken Caryl a few years ago with the eight people in the car. That one was pretty sad too. He was only my (our) age when he died too. Kinda scary. You know, people are always saying "Omg, I can't wait till I'm outta college, I'm gonna get rich and blah blah blah" But a lot of people never get to do that cuz they die. Which is pretty damn sad, usually it's always the innocent people who get hurt, never the drunk driver or the one who caused the accident. Which is really terrible.
The one thing that kinda stuck in my mind though was the girl's story who's sister died last year. How sucky would it be having to plan your sister's entire funeral because your parents are too messed up from the shock of it? Even though Hannah and I fight a lot, and I basically hate her, this girl's story made me think that if I had to do something like that, it would be so much harder to do espcecially because we aren't close at all. My friend Melissa used to say "You never have to like someone, but you always have to love them." Which I think is totally true, well, at least for the people you are forced to be in contact with. After the assembly was over, they had the car that the eight people were in in that wreck. I couldn't stand there very long, it was seriously hard trying to imagine what happened to cause that car to be like that. It was so mangled, what was left of the passenger seat was melted to the drivers seat, at least, it looked that way. The dash was gone, the door looked like it was opened, then smashed into the back seat door, only it wasn't because then it would have looked like the doors on the inside do/did. You figure out what that means. Here is the car, which makes me sick, if you didn't see it:
I have friends that drink and do drugs, and it always made me mad, but now it's more like fear. Most of these crashes involve alcohol and they are pretty damn bad. My mom was hit by a drunk driver a while ago who was running a red light, she was lucky, the dude's blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit. That was the same day my school bus got into an accident with a fence, haha. It's also been about a year since Carla's accident over by the McDonalds by the school. It was a minor accident, though it totalled her car, but it was when I was coming home from Robins. We got to about Alemeda and Union and I didn't have my seat belt on, and I donno why, but I just had this feeling to put it on. So I did. Two blocks later we slam into the car in front of us. I had a bruise on my chest, I may have had a concussion since her car was so small and her dash so close to the front seats. Her air bags didn't go off. So I donno, but I think it was pretty damn lucky.
Most of the day I have spent thinking about those people in the cars, and those affected by what happened. Carla told me today after school she saw on the news there was another wrek where a person had to swerve for some reason, slammed on his brakes which caused the car to turn sideways. The car's side then slammed into a tree, and the force of it caused the whole thing to wrap around the tree so that the front bumper was almost touching the back one. The people on the side of the car that hit the tree died (2) and the driver is in a coma. I think my biggest fear is not being able to tell someone something. In the fall I was thinking about what I would do if I could make one last fone call, I know exactly who I would call. Chances are though, if you get into a situation like that, you won't get a last call. If one of my friends were to die in the near future (20 years or so) I don't think I could face each day. There are some that would affect me differently than others but still. If you read this post, I apologise for the very long (possibly lame-at-some-points) rant, and I love you unconditionally.
LE
Don't drink dammit!
