How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Thing

Watch the end of the James Dean driver safety video and the irony of it is the saddest part of all. The person you did not mention which is Ayrton Senna falls into the same mode - both of these are freak accidents - in Senna's case a steering wheel shaft that penetrated his head through his visor - a couple of inches lower he is safe, a couple of inches higher he is safe. I can include Paul Walker in this even though in his case there was driver error involved - Walker becomes significant in that the Furious Five crew left what I thought was the most poignant of memorial songs, which moved everyone in the cinema I was in when it played. Even though none of us live forever, the tragedy of not living a full life is among life's greatest cruelties - that I have been to several funerals of people who never made it to 30 has a weight to it that I am powerless to put right or change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKAFK5djSk One of the ironic twists in my life is a college friend of mine whose dream was to live in Toronto, he did study for a while in Toronto but could not achieve his dream of emigrating - when he came back to England, I saw him once before he was killed in a car crash. The worst thing about that is that I read in the newspaper of a car crash, and then I stood in stunned silence as I read the name - Ramesh Pohani of 47 Crave Avenue, Ealing. Not only did I not get a chance to pay my last respects, 10 years later it is I who emigrated to Toronto. What is just as strange is that the moment I wrote out his name in this comment, a heavy thunder-shower started crashing against the roof of my home. It is appropriate that the heavens should open and seemingly cry and as I remember as I remember all those who passed away young (including my mom's first born) - there is only one song for them all and it isn't "Only the Good Die Young" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIAQCiMIEEQ Reply