a shocking experience...

sol83

sol83

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today something really shocking (for me) and tragical (for me counrty) happened. at about 7 o'clock this evening i was passing from the tembi valley in a bus along with 60 other boys and girls on our way home from athens. (for a few of you who have made the trip from thessaloniki to athens, you might remember the area - really narrow road, many turns, etc.) Half hour later a bus full of kids was passing from that spot. a truck loaded with big pieces of wood (in a rectangular shape or something) was coming from the other side. the ropes (or whatever it was) that were holding the wood-pile snapped, they fell on the street and hit the bus which hit on a very big tree on the side of the road. about 25 people have died till now, most of 'em 15-16 year old kids, 50 injured...

i never remember something similar happening to me. i was not involved but still... it could easilly be me or mates of mine... when i got home and switched the box on, i freaked out. i'm still freaked out. 25 kids dead. how do you deal with that?

i know this is kind of very irrelevant but i'm curious what similar things have happened to yous guys. i dunno... i'm just so shocked by this thing it won't leave me head. so, have you experienced anything similar?

:cry:

RIP
 
But in this case, I think we can call it FATALITY! I could be killed during my work, but it's not normal that young boys and girls were killed on a bus... It's such a tragic story, my young brother is 16, and I can't imagine him dead yet! :(
 
man,my parents were on the spot about a quarter before the incident.it was awful,plain awfulness.and they werent even responsible,that truck did everything.its the worst way to die,so unfair and wasted.
 
A similar thing happened in Hungary some 8 years ago, the difference was only that it wasn't timber but some big metal plates that got unloaded from the truck and practically cut the bus full of kids into two. Many died there as well. I still remember it, I was also shocked.
 
Ok my dear Sol, I guess we can call this fate that you were there half an hour earlier, and not in the wrong bus. A lot of things that happen in your life (our lives) that we will probably never understand.

When I have to cope with a thing like that (a mate of mine had an horible motor accident 3 weeks ago, 2 small kids and in the best years of his life: 38) I realise that life IS short an you have to enjoy every second of it, it can be all over in the morning........

But I totally understand you're in shock now, take care!!!!

Cheers, Charlotte
 
i was in a train once and we 'rolled' over some guy. that felt pretty weird too. but i wasnt that involved. and i dont feel much traumatised like. with time you wont think much of it anymore.
 
mehdi.i.e.e.e said:
i was in a train once and we 'rolled' over some guy. that felt pretty weird too. but i wasnt that involved. and i dont feel much traumatised like. with time you wont think much of it anymore.
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Same happened to me few years ago..
I also lost a friend in a car accident (she just wanted to walk over the street and this woman wanted to pass as long as it's still orange..) and anotherone had a heartattack when she was 17... Another firend of mine had a car accident last Saturday. He fell asleep and crushed into a tree.. He must have had about 10 guardian angels.. He smashed his knee and his hips..
It takes so little and everything's over.. And also it doesn't take much to survive.. Sometimes I ask myself what decides about who's reaching a high age. What makes the difference that we survive and other people don't, that we might get 80 years old and other people die before even reaching 20? It also makes me realize that the things which make our lives easier kill us.. and that fucking scares me.
 
time heals, that's true.

it's not like i'm traumatised. i'm shocked. it's not that it's an unforgetable thing... i dunno, it's kinda selfish actually, getting all emotional only when it's related to you (even in this way)... but hell, i mean, it's about kids. that's the fuckin horrible thing. can you realize what their mothers feel like right now? and all that because some wank didn't take precautions (he just had minor injures by the way)...

all these things about life and fairness and god come to your head at times like that. i dunno... i guess we have to get used to the fact that this is how life is. good, bad, swell, fucked... that's reality. gotta be strong no matter what or else it's over...
 
Thortyir said:
I konw what you mean Eos, one of my best friends died in a car crash when I was only 20 ...
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in this country, everyone knows at least of one person that has died on the road. we drive like maniacs, the roads are fucked... i knew a guy one year younger that died 2 years ago. he was not even driving. we were not very close but it felt crap. and again, it was because some other guy fucked up. that's what gets you so fucked up in the end. that it was (like the tragedy today) somebody's elses fault...
 
I know, when I leave my house, my father always says "be careful", and I answer "i'm always careful"...
So he says, "I'm not frightened by your way to drive, I'm frightened by some other people's way to drive"...
 
I think these are kind of things that i can't make part of my microcosm...my mind can't really accept them...I mean, how the families of the children must feel right now, or how unfair was for this children to leave in such a way and so young...the easyness of losing this precious gift of life seems so scaring...so out of our daily routine. Only time can reconcile them with this tragedy...

RIP
 
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