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[Jul. 17th, 2007|08:18 pm] |
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a 4wd crashed through some shops at beaudesert yesterday and killed a woman who was at the front desk of an ljhookers.
she had just returned from lunch with a muffin and coffee from 'everydays'. it's a routine
that we all seem to follow.there are 2 cafes in beaudesert - everydays and the beaui cafe.
these are all trivial details,but that seems to be the only thing we have to comfort ourselves.
beaudesert is a really tight knit community.we all know each other and every one else's going on.
the word is - that the man had driven his wife and child off the road (2kms out of town)
and then driven into the building purposefully.from the angle of the collision it certainly looks like that - it's a five way intersection and regardless of where he came from
the fact that he ended up in lj hookers is...just weird. it's 3 shops away from the corner
it makes me sad that someone could do this.i hope it was a heart attack but from all accounts this will not be
the finding. i hope it is, i don't want to that people are capable of this.in my angriest moments i could never imagine hurting anyone-let alone a stranger.
i would drive into a tree - jump off a bridge, if i wanted to do something like that.
lots of people knew sue - she had looked after her elderly mother for years and now had her horse and dog
as company, perhaps its a good thing that she didn't leave behind children to mourn her.
there are heaps of stories - of people who were about to go down to the bakery(which is just past the lj hookers) but stopped to make a call or send an email,
people who were seconds off being hit.my housemate thinks i'm being a drama queen, but this is seriously a one street town where we all walk to get
coffees, lunches, stop off at the newsagent.it hurts that a life was taken, so quickly and without provocation. it scares me that it may have been
an attempt on the part of the 4wd driver to injure others.it scares me that people may wander around, and we may know these people who are literally ticking time bombs.
what if it had been in the queen st mall or adelaide street , edward intersection. hundreds of people cross there at all times of the day.are our lives really so...fragile, insignificant that
they can be taken so quickly and without warning?
my friend has been pressuring me into going on a holiday/taking a roadtrip with her. "why are you always looking for an excuse not to have a holiday?", she says.."you need to be more spontanous - like you used to be.." about a week ago we were talking and she said "you're so...non-commital.my ticket could be up any day you know," all of this
made me feel a little guilty but i didn't give it that much thought until yesterday. i am building and building...saving...investing...and what if it's taken from me. what if these moments
i should have enjoyed were gone forever.if there is a heaven/hell/afterlife will i be regeretting these lost opportunities?
i bought some flowers and printed out a card to place at the site, it read "“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” |
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that is so sad and scary at the same time. I mean you want to die, fine, but don't take people with you. Just because your life is so bad (or whatever) that you feel that you must end it, end it, don't harm the people who are still enjoying thiers.
As for what comes after, I don't know. I think that if you did go to heaven it would be so wonderful there that you would not be sad about what you left behind, If there is hell, you would but that is what hell is supposed to be about... suffering.
I think just as long as you are happy and enjoying your life you are doing what life is about, athough if you are un-happy you need to get through it because you need to beleive that something better is just around the corner for you.
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