Friday, August 6, 2010

Remembering

Once in a while, on a long drive home from work, a memory will spark in me...

I remembered her from work. She was around 19, a sweet young thing, and she always come around with her friend. Once in a while we will have a quick chat. I don't know her well, but she always looked happy..

Then one day out of the blue, came the news. She was hit by a van while crossing the road to get to the other side. Her dad was waiting on the other side of the road, to pick her up from work. She was standing in between two lanes on a highway, unsure on whether to cross the rest of the road when suddenly a van came zooming by. I guess the van driver did not see her. The vehicle banged into her, and the impact caused her to fly up in the air before landing on the road. Her dad, who saw the whole thing, was screaming when he came to her. She died.

The news was made even sadder, when i heard almost a year before, her brother, too, died in a car accident.

How cruel life is sometimes, and it's times like this, when I remember and remind myself not to sweat the small stuff, and to just live life to the fullest.


"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle" - Albert Einstein

2 comments:

Pei Chyi said...

your story has touched my heart. thank you for reminding me that our time on earth is short, and we have to be grateful of what we have, and the life we live, always.

It's this sort of things that jolt us back to reality, how we often complain over little things and how we wished for things to be different.

*hugs*

The Peanut Momster said...

Peichyi: *hugs*

I guess it's good for us to remember tragedies once in a while, to give us a kick in the butt. Wake up call, that's what it is.