Life Is Short

Life is short

The Quite before the storm, The Fun before the Nearly-Fatal

            “I was 3 inches from becoming roadkill” when I first heard these words I went completely numb. My friend, who wishes to remain anonymous, was your average young adult and one day they went to a party that started fun but almost turned fatal. They told me a story of your average bonfire with friends, food, and fun but it quickly turned bad when someone, who my friend says was drunk, and probably on drugs, and started arguing with someone at the party. After a few words were said, or rather yelled, the individual appeared to have left and things returned to normal. 

That’s when fun became nearly-fatal as the individual came back with a car.

The Nearly Fatal Machine

  

This individual was in the passenger side of the car fighting the driver for control of the car and made a b-line towards the party. Luckily enough everyone at the party managed to get out of the way in time, but then he slammed it into reverse and tried again only to hit a few bumps and eventually into a tree. “It went from peace to utter chaos in the drop of a hat. The other guest of the party ,naturally enraged, started hitting on the car trying to get the guy out “All the guys were slamming on this guy’s car and climbing on top of it some girl was in the back of the car with her feet out the back window Luckily she got one foot in before it hit the tree, her other foot was trapped in between the glass and the tree”. Fortunately for everyone ,but this one girl, there were no other serious injuries happened. After this the word “cops” got thrown around according to my friend and everyone scrambled. Luckily for this girl my friend and their friend helped her, she couldn’t walk due to her injuries, into their car and drove her to the hospital, they were in the forest, so they couldn’t call 911. That day my friend did something many people wouldn’t do he wasn’t a bystander. 

I wanted to retell this story to share what my friend learned the hard way that life is short, so we should live it like it could collapse at any moment. Another reason I wanted to share this story is to say don’t be a bystander, odds are if my friend didn’t intervene that girl would have died that day because everyone else was worried about themselves and didn’t notice her and their was no way she could have drove herself.