Fatality Accident

I was headed up to North Seattle to dine with my friend.  It had been a good day.  Lazy, catching up on small things I needed to do and then a free dinner invite with my friend, gratis a swanky restaurant.  Afterwards, I was invited to a reception at the Seattle Art Museum.  Sounded like the perfect ending to a perfect day.

But, as "luck" would have it ....

I was just a bit south of the sports arenas when a motorcycle coming towards me on a divided piece of highway, collided with a city bus, traveling in the same direction.  Of course, the bus won that contest.  The passenger, well was flattened by the bus, instant fatality.  The driver of the motocycle went into the dividing barrier wall right in front of me.  Yeah, another fatality.  The human body was not meant to come apart.

I have seen a great deal of death in my life, the worst was an airliner that went down by one of our family friends homes and we were on the way to his house when the plane passed overhead and flattened a hotel when I was seven.  Yup, an awful lot of bodies and I had no reaction.  Being born with no emotions probably saved me a lifetime of therapy.  And feeling nothing, I joined my father in helping the medics pick up body parts to put in the boxes.

But this one was different.  I have emotions now, I can feel!  And the horror of this brought me to tears.  I just sat with my car in park, and cried.  No one honked their horns or yelled, everyone was in shock.  After a few moments, I was able to recover enough to continue my trip - meditating on the apparent randomness of life.

Photo from King 5 News

I would guess that the driver of the motorcycle was about my age.  Probably the last thing he thought of that morning was that this was a beautiful sunny day to die on, in a horrible manner.  I felt sorry for the bus driver.  He really had done nothing wrong.  Just a horrible "accident", but there really are no accidents, just your number coming up and where and how, well that is the randomness to the equation.