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Sometimes I ponder how or why I've reached the ripe old age of 52. No, I never had to ship or fly off to a foreign land for a brutal war. I suspect that causes a whole different level of why not me. I've actually lived a somewhat charmed life in my opinion. Yet I feel I've had multiple opportunities for an early exit. Some odd 40 years ago or so while engaged in a hide and seek game I turned to run across the street and instead ran into the side of a moving automobile. Obviously, if my timing had been better I would have been run over and possibly killed. 10 years later I found myself rolling down a rocky ditch after the motorcycle I was on bounced off of a light blue pickup. I was carried away unscathed, not withstanding my three tibia fractures. Two or three short years later I was assisting in the placement of a 20 foot stick of rebar a mere 30 feet above ground and 12 feet from multiple high voltage lines. That was likely the closest I've come to death. Let's not forget the close encounters with bad drivers.
Any of the aforementioned incidents could've been the end of me, but due to grace, bad timing, or good fortune I'm still here. We all know people, or are that person, that could've or should've killed or at least maimed themselves. Sometimes you read about them in the paper and your thinking, yep, that's what I expected. Yet, just as often or more so, it'll be someone you least expected. We just don't know. Past behavior doesn't guarantee future outcomes. This seems to apply to the stock market and other areas as well. The worst is when you're doing everything right and along comes some Darwin award winner to take you out. Never rely on the performance of mechanical things, they can fail. However, deaths due to mechanical failure are minuscule compared to those resulting from human actions. If you make it through the golden years of bad choices, 13-24, then your chances of a natural death improve and for the majority that do it is no fault of their own.
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