A life snuffed out........... and for what ?

I went to visit someone in the hospital today, and while returing found the foyer full of college kids. It so happened that two children were involved in an accident and the  girl had died.  I left with a heavy heart. No face, no name, no one even distantly related to me.  But ... I felt sorrow ... followed by anger.

Why do we take our lives for granted ? Why do we feel that nothing can happen to US ? Things like this happen only to OTHERS.  In our zest for living why do we forget that things are not in our hands ... even if it is our own life.

The papers are full of it .. youngster dies in car/motorbike accident.  Driving at unmentionable speeds.  Our roads are not equipped to deal with such high speeds. 

To top it all we thrive on breaking rules.  We don't even have the time to wait 30 seconds for the signal to change to green.  This disregard is not only towards ourselves but to "someone out there" who for no fault of his bears the brunt. 

Do we not think of who we leave behind ? What will they go through ?

A life snuffed out .................. in a second................ in a moment of false bravado, or for a few minutes of cheap thrills.  What of the one who has to go on - a parent, a sibling, a friend ...... no one knows for how long .. with the guilt that they could have prevented it.... devastated that their loved one went in a moment of sheer madness, a moment of carelessness.  A life full of only "IFs". 

When will we learn  ?