well to put it blunty i'm depressed but in a good way. Kind of an oxymoron if you really think about it. There was a simulation of a drunk driving accident at my school in the rain. It made me mad that some people were thinking it was a joke and when we first arrived out on the green grass, it did. But as the simulation went on and the senior/junior class entered the auditorium, it because very quite serious. By the end of the interupting announcements for the presentation, there was not a dry eye in the the room. it makes you honestly and really think of everyone around you. Those kids, that were messing around. You know the ones who joke and laugh and make fun of what was happening, by the end of the presenation, they were the first ones up and out of their seats when it was over. They did not leave; no, they stood up and applauded at how well the presenation went. People cried, people realized, people let the truth sink in. It's not a game and it's not funny. The speaker at the end of the "simulation" was a nurse who has been working at a hospital for years and I'll never forget what she said. "When we do this simulation. It is a simulation to you; for me it's memories and they are never pleasent ones. I've been in the OR for 22 years and riding the ambulence for 27 years and when someone is in a DUI accident, espiccially a young person, my heart sinks. And what is worse, when you've done all you can to save that one person's life and lose them. It's just as worse to make that call or to walk in that waiting room to tell the parents of that child, that, that child has died."
I am proud of my class. I am proud that stupid idiots I do know drink and drive, because of this, has changed and for the better. It makes me want to change too. I dont' drink, I don't drive. But I have ridden in a car with someone who has. And it's terrible when I think about it. Those of you who read this. Take what it is written here to heart. Don't make stupid mistakes like that. Because of one mistake, others maybe killed.
-B
 Xelafunky · Thu Apr 26, 2007 @ 11:33pm · 0 Comments |
