Never Forget It Could Happen

Most of us walk around oblivious to potential dangers around us, conveniently putting out of mind the possibility that something or somebody very dangerous could be "invisible", but very close to us or one of our family members or a friend

A current news story on our local television station (CTV) here in Vancouver illustrates this. According to the story a group of friends were walking through a local Vancouver area park when one of them, a teenaged girl about 15 or 16 years old, fell behind her friends and was suddenly attacked by a youth or young man with a baseball bat who jumped out of the bushes.

He beat the young lady so severely that she later died of her injuries in the hospital.

Although it is unclear exactly why the young lady fell behind her friends on the park path and we would make ourselves paranoid wrecks if we all walked around like we were members of some historic Spark military phalanx while we are going about our business, social, or recreational activities what happened is a reminder that we DO NEED to stay aware of the possibility of the unexpected happening on such occasions.

This is true even if we or our friends have never been mugged or attacked – or become the victim of an accident before. It takes only once to cause us a lot of grief.