This weekend a boy that I went to highschool with passed away in a snowmobiling accident. Our town is amazing for ourdoor activities and people find bliss in adventuring in the wonderful mountain terrain and living on the edge.
It's amazing how an event like this can take that reality we all try to ignore--the reality that life is so temporary and we are so vulnerable--and shove it in your face. This event put that truth right in my path on Monday and I was tripping over it all day.
I went from Kindergarten to grade 12 with this boy and in a small town like this, you are attached. Even though I haven't spoken to him much since graduation I am attached to him as part of the community and as the kind person he was. Seeing his mom at the grocery store, seeing his little sister grow up and leave for University, seeing his dad at the local feed store. I feel such a sadness for his family and friends.
I still can't grasp the very real idea of good people touching this earth one day and giving the magic they do, then being absent the next; leaving all their loved ones behind with an empty piece of this big puzzle called life.
It makes me feel confused about a few things: I don't know why bad things happen to good people, I don't know why this human condition we all exist within has to be so vulnerable. This thought of vulnerability to danger doesn't mesh with what we ever want for our own family and friends, but yet is a certainty in our world.
The fact is, there is nothing else to do with this grand fact but let it be the turth and let it be a catalyst for us all to live bigger and better. Recognize the amazing people that surround you every day just in case, one day, you don't get to tell them you love them or how amazing they really are.
"We are vulnerable beings. We were born, and we will die. But today, while we breathe, we live deliberately." -Kelle Hampton
Embrace this vulnerability and let it trip you up. Let it sit right in the middle of your path until you have to aknowledge it, embrace it, and let it push you into a place of living deliberately.
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1 comments:
It is shocking to lose him. I'm sorry that such a sweet person is gone. My thoughts go out to his family and all his friends.
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