gotham2

my brother just lost three friends he skates with, in a car accident. they were driving over 100 km/hr. the car split in two and they couldn't even tell who was wearing seatbelts. he's 17 and never lost anyone before. he doesn't know how to talk about it, and he isn't the type of person who lets their feelings out.

i wish i could tell him that it was so tragic, and that they are in a better place and that the pain will go away, but i don't know these things for sure.
it was a waste, because kids don't recognize their own fragility and mortality. we've all been there. it never should have happened, but it did, and it took out another innocent driver who burned alive in his car.

i wish i could tell him that it wont happen again, or that it will get better, but it wont. i've had at least one friend die every year for the past six. mostly for similar reasons. i don't know how to help him, but i hated going through it alone when i was his age. i hated realizing that i couldn't change it, and that everyone i love will die.

now i accept it, and it makes me much more grateful...
it's always their time. no one promises us long and healthy lives. it's ours to live until its over, whenever that may be.