Oh man this just hit me like a ton of bricks!

[ditchdj]

This high school girl that was involved in a serious car accident and almost died and is now paralyzed from the neck down was in a Spanish class that I taught as a student teacher last year.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=local&id=4363825

If she is still in the hospital when I go up there next week to get my nine year old I plan on visiting her. Let's hope things turn out for the best for her.

[Kiwi]

Im so sorry to hear that, its never nice when someone you know is hurt :( my thoughts are with you and her.

[ditchdj]

It just hits me that it's really not fair that something like that happened to her. As someone that knew her, although we didnt see eye-to-eye in the classroom at times, by no means did she deserve something like that. She gets a lot better grades in school than I did, and I once crashed my car into a ditch as a teenager and I crawled out of my car without any injuries. It just doesnt make sense to me.

[One-Fang]

I don't think it's supposed to.

This is the kind of reason I always hate people who say, for example after your own crash, "God was watching out for me". What, so God wasn't watching out for this girl? What'd she do to deserve this? It's so thoughtlessly stupid.

Random things happen in life. I've seen people walk away from truly horrific accidents, and others be crippled by very minor stuff. A lady at work last year went to get out of bed, tripped on the rug, hit her head on the bedside cabinet on the way down, and died (immediately, I believe). A stupid and minor little thing. Who hasn't tripped in their house?

Life is a very precious thing. Your continued ability to live, breathe, see, hear, walk, think, do, act, laugh, play, run and generally enjoy what you've got hangs on a precious balance being acted upon by a thousand minor incidents and coincidences.

Learn from this. Value what you have.