Please Be Careful.

[katleept]

Guys, just as I was getting off work yesterday, there was a bad wreck. We went right past it to go home. It shook the crap out of both Dad and I. I was still shaking when I got to Drew. I wish I hadn't seen it, but more, I wish it hadn't happened.

A motorcycle was underneath the front of an 18 wheeler, pretty much crushed. There was a guy laying on the road under a blanket. He wasn't gone yet as there were three people still around him, talking to him, trying to ease him. I know it had been called in, but there was still no ambulance, no police, just people trying to help a man in what turned out to be his last minutes here on Earth. (On April Fool's Day, at that.)

We live in a world where we pretty well have to use cars and other modes of transportation to get places. But we need to remember how dangerous it is. Not just for the Earth but for us, for those we love, for perfect strangers and the ones who love them.

The biker didn't make it. Most of my family -- my beloved Drew and my parents included -- have been bikers at one time. It is so, SO easy for one wrong turn, one second's delay to change and ruin everything. There also may have been a little girl involved in the wreck who also didn't make it. Either way, there's a life gone when there didn't have to be.

Please, y'all, be careful out there, and remember: You're not just keeping yourself safe when you're being safe. You're keeping others safe. You're making sure, or at least doing all you can to make sure, you can come back to those you love and who love you, even if they're just furry. And you're making sure you don't accidentally take or add to some one else taking another's life.

Everybody has some one. They may not even know it, but there's no human life on this Earth that passes without some one taking notice of it. You may be the whole world to some one you love or even just to one, little animal. Some one else around you may be the whole world to some one, too.

That guy who cut you off at the red light? The chick who took your parking space? The girl who filled your order? The guy who got fussy because you didn't deliver his whatever as quickly as he thought you should? This may be the last time you see any of them. Every one of them could go out there and get killed before they get to see anybody else.

So try to be that change you want to see in the world. Try to treat others as you want to be treated and/or as your deity would have you treat them. Try to spread kindness, spread love, while we still can. And above all, be careful so you can come home to those who love you and so that that perfect stranger can also come home to those who love him/her.

Love you, guys. Just . . . be safe.

And, guys, pray for those who loved that poor biker. I can only imagine the heartache they're going through right now, especially if they lost a child, too.

EDIT: There was a little girl, too, who was killed probably upon impact and another wreck last night involving three big rigs and ten cars and claiming at least two more lives.

I can not stress this enough, especially in these trying times: For those who love, for those who love others, please BE CAREFUL!!!