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Wow. I almost lost my life, today. I mean it, I really came close to dying. I was driving to work and a semi-truck ran a red light. Lucky for me he was empty or he would not have able to stop. As it was, he stopped about two feet from t-boning my driver-side door. I wanted to puke I was so shaken. I wish I could write something about realizing how important life is or how I will treat everyday as my last...but that's all bullshit. I came away thinking how fragile I am. Everything I have done, everything I am can be snuffed out in an instant. I love life already. As an atheist, I don't believe that when you kill someone, you send them to god. Death is tragic, and end. Doesn't matter if your government's death commando tortures and kills you, as in El Salvador, or a Mac truck plowes into you running a light...death is it. But that is part of life, you roll the dice and brave the impending, inevitable doom. And some of us, myself included, learn to smile, despite that fact.
~J