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| by comrade commissar | Thomas | @ Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 8:52:00 PM | permalink |
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About 2 months ago my friend B was involved in a car accident. Sitting in the backseat of this n00b driver friend's car, he watched as the speedometer climbed to 100, 120, 140. Of course, B's friend, trying to speed on a meandering 2-lane road, lost control, skidded, 'drifted', spun twice, finally stopping after a hard solid bang into the roadside kerb. The cost to this idiotic Initial D wannabe was a detached bumper, dead engine and a sear in his wallet. But then again, all that's pretty chicken feed, especially considering that the car with 3 lives in it narrowly missed plunging into a nearby construction pit 30 metres deep. Having listened to his near-death experience, I told B that he was the luckiest bugger on earth, because this was a high point in his life. It was as obvious a divine message as it can ever get, because it was simply not his time to go. That meant that he has yet to achieve his greatest moment(s) in life, and that tomorrow held purpose and direction. Because God wanted him to emerge from the car unscathed, he's got something to live for tomorrow. The point in the whole grandfather story above is this - Despite how I personally feel about Wayne's passing, how I want to ask why he has to leave now when there should have been were so many years ahead, I have to trust that God in His infinite wisdom and vision knows what is best. Wayne lived a beautiful fulfilling life in his short time with us. The great number of people who were at the wake was a statement to how he was a great person who was a friend and inspiration to others, who had an impact on so many other lives. Wayne's life is an open challenge to every single one of us. Its a challenge to not live the 9-to-5 existence, to not be numbed, to savour the beautiful things that simply cannot be bought with material goods, to pursue our own passions, to love life every single day, to live such that when the time came and mortal man had to die, other stood up and said, "This was an individual who made a difference." |
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