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A few months ago I was going through a box that's been sitting idle in a closet for the last decade, and I found a framed photo from High School of a competition team I was on. It's strange seeing something like that after so long, and I wondered what those folks were up to nowadays.
Tonight I logged into Facebook, and one such High School friend had posted about a guy in that photo.
He died the early morning of January 1.
The ever so brief news article gives you more info by reading between the lines than it does from the stated facts. Jan 1, 1 am....horsing around can get you killed, is what it amounts to. Those guys were just out partying in the new year, no thought given to anything except having some fun, and one of them was accidentally injured with a fractured skull and died in the hospital. Nobody's fault, no crime committed, just a freak accident that killed somebody I spent untold hours with in High School, and haven't seen or spoken to in a dozen years.
So this is just to say, next time your buddies think up some cool way to have fun, think about it for 2 seconds, and buckle up, put on a helmet even though they'll laugh, hold on for dear life instead of reaching for the wind, or maybe just sit that one out. You just never know when the stupidest things will kill you.
I guess this is why our parents tell us to be safe or careful when we leave to go hang out with friends.
Anyways, there it is...I just don't know what to do with news like this on a Monday night.
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Young people will always be young people. We all like to think, especially when we're intoxicated (yes, blame alcohol), we're invincible and we'll do dangerous things to impress our mates for laughs. It's a matter of maturity and not all people gain it when they grow up.
<div align="right]"Stupidest" is not a word, by the way.
A friend of mine fell off some scaffolding while messing about climbing up the outside of a building while a bit drunk. Ended up suffering some fairly serious brain damage. he has some rather severe mood swings now, which he never used to have. Unlucky, but largely his own fault.
Worth just considering what you're doing before you do it.
Sorry for the loss of your friend Xoria. It's never a nice thing to hear.
Personally, I wouldn't have pictures of my bare asscheeks taken while sober... But I do drive sober, which is something you definately shouldn't do while drunk. Generally just worth keeping an eye for common sence.
Now well, that's the thing..that words, think about stuff before you do something stupid. I know how many things me and my friends did what could have killed us. But it didn't. It has nothing to do with being safe or nothing to do with that little "what if" coming trough your brain. I've been hurt in a lot of situations which I gave a lot of thought, I've broken limbs and smashed my face in sober and drunk moments.
Unfortunately I have lost some friends on similar situations. But it doesn't matter, you can't stop it. It's not fate, it's not destiny it's just idea and gravity behind things we do in life.
It is life unfortunately, thing we have and thing we can lose in matter of seconds. On this new year I've been jumping on some bushes with a friend I know and I felt on my head, which still hurts me. I felt on stones, maybe if it was just a centimeter on other place I would have died, or had serious damage to scull or similar.
Not that I'm trying to sell you a story or anything...after all life is interesting, either it being depressive or happy. Also life sucks, death sucks, pain sucks, but unless we learn to love all that things and feelings, we can only spend our lives being sad.
Unfortunately it's all part of life. And yes as your topic said " The stupidest things"..truthfully stupidest things made my life so wonderful, and stupidest things can make our life bad in matter of seconds. Let me give you a quote
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" ~ Hunter S.Thompson
A friend of mine was a passenger in a car on the way home from a party near my village. They were crossing a narrow road bridge when an oncomer sped past forcing my mates car to swerve, smashing into the side of the bridge. The airbags were damaged in that old wreckmobile... he died instantly on New Years Day.
The oncomer wasn't drunk, but really hungover.
People, alcohol is a wonderful thing, but you need to get some moderation. My grandad really forced me to learn my limits and when to stop, so far all is well.
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