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Originally Posted by Freiwillige

Yea thought's of your own mortality can make one feel helpless. I find a good way to deal with death is just to remind myself that everybody passes and it is the normal cycle of things.

I can think of two occasions in my time here that I almost found death, Once as a young pre-teen I was swimming at one of my good friends neighbors house. The houses were separated by a drainage ditch. My friend did not have a pool but his neighbor who was 10, 2 years younger than us did.

We swam all morning and then we decided that we were bored and wanted to eat and go skatebording so we left and went back to my friends house next door. We ate and took a nap on the couch watching tv and then woke up and went skateboarding. By afternoon we were blocks away by my house and around dinner time my family gave him a ride home. As we arrived we saw fire trucks, police cars, ambulance, helicopters you name it.

So we dropped him off and his parents were in the driveway watching the spectacle and I figured I would see him at school the next day.

I did not see him for almost a week, turns out that his ten year old friend and neighbor was brutally murdered by a homeless man in the very backyard we had just left. The back of the house faces the interstate and access road, so they assumed that the homeless man was wandering down the road and just hopped the fence and committed the crime. I found out later that we had just left not to long before the murder.

Years later as a teenager me and some friends went to go check out a newly discovered mineshaft in the AZ desert not far from Phoenix. AS we climbed down the steel service ladder there was a 4 foot jump one had to make to a side tunnel because that is where the ladder ended. But the tunnel still went down another 1,000 feet. They all jumped fine but as my turn came I landed right on the edge and was doing that cartoony thing where your trying to keep your balance and your arms are doing circles. I did that for what seemed like an eternity and I felt myself falling back towards the abyss when suddenly I regained my balance.

Life is a wild ride.

Dude-that gave me the chills.

Somebody is looking out for you.