The notion of invincibility

[Pinkgirl36]

The Signal
This is kinda sad, it's an article in my city's news paper. Share this with people and teenagers. Most are like these kids were, and they paid the ulitmate price, just kinda makes you think alittle.


A short part of it....

“Won’t they ever learn?” he asked, frustrated and shaken.
He was at the lake to discuss the investigation into the deaths of four men in a racing boat that flipped when they tripled the speed limit.
He knew the answer to his question.
“We talk to kids about these things, but it’s something we can’t control,” Saugus Principal Norman Estrada told one of our reporters.
Two popular, jovial, multi-talented athletes who had the whole world ahead of them. Girls. Marriage. Careers. Progeny of their own.
Coach Chad Phillips said Bell “played the game of his life” on the basketball court a few days earlier. That time, he won.
Bell and Smith played the true game of their lives on Bouquet. This time, they lost.
Some call it the Superman Syndrome. The notion of invincibility. Kids have it. Adults have it. I guess I had it without realizing it.
I confessed to Bowers at the scene. I used to drive like I owned the road. But not since Feb. 17, 2000.
“You see a few of these and they have that effect on you,” he said

[Pinkgirl36]

This is also sad, its in today paper. I think it's just tooooooo much grief for one small city.
The Signal - Too much death and destruction for one week

[Jenny]

[eSDee]

Well this is a happy thread.

[Pinkgirl36]

Originally posted by EsDeeLoco
Well this is a happy thread.

Hehehehe, love the sarcasm. I just hope that the people that do end up reading it, realize that somethings just aren't worth it, and will make you think twice. I know from experience, that going to a funeral for 2 brothers who died in the same accident, is not something I ever want to do again, and I hope that no one ever has to, and that no parents would have to bury their children, because I've seen it done and it is something I know that no matter how much I am angry with my dad that I could never ever ever ever put him or anyone I love through something like that, just because I decided to drive fast.

[ThanatoGratus]

It is not really that surprising that as a blanket rule, teenagers feel that there is an air of invincibility to their condition.
Specific, personal circumstances, may inhibit this feeling, or in my opinion alter it because of the "adult" situations they experience while still a child.
I got a dose of life awakening recently along the same lines.
" Two Saugus Students Killed " http://www.the-signal.com/main/0102/011402a.html Though I didn't know the two students personally, thinking for a time that one of them was a fellow alumnist made me re-evaluate what really laws are there for.... to PRESERVE life.
They shouldn't be thought of as an inconvenience if you're running late. They should be observed that in the off chance that you are the one hit from behind--and the person who hit you was only going the speed limit (as opposed to double it-- etc. because the force you'd feel increases as the square of the factor of increase)(physics but a needed explanation in my opinion)