Fate?

It's sad when you hear people you know involved in accidents, and what is sadder is when you hear that they are suffering injury that might affect the rest of their life. Accidents happen no matter how careful we are. We read about it everyday in the paper or hear it on the news. Of course there are foolish people out there who had accidents due to actions deliberately done, like racing for example. Often times we hear teenagers died in car crash after speeding on the freeway, or racing without their seatbelts on, or just racing, period. When this happens, parents are often devastated and cried for days and days, thinking, 'How stupid can a person be? Racing like that..' But no matter how many reports of accidents on the road due to carelessness or plain stupidity, it is still happening. Who to blame? The kids? The parents? The laws?

When an accident is purely an accident, who then do we put the blame on? The other driver? The road? The weather? The person himself? It's hard. Yesterday I received a text message from a friend, informing that another friend's husband was involved in a car accident a few days and has suffered injury to his spine, he is paralysed from the waist down. I hope and pray that is just a temporary condition and once healed he would be able to walk again. He was only my age, accomplished in his career, has children and a wife - larger than life. It would be sad if he doesn't recover from this unfortunate incident. I don't really know the details of the accident or how it happened. I know that my friend would be stressed out, worried sick and probably crying everyday, but I think she will be strong. When bad things happen to good people, you can help but wonder, 'Why?'