Today is the 1 year anniversary of my friend Samantha Berard's death...She passed away last summer in a drinking and driving accident. The poor girl,only 17, never made it home. Tonight, they're having a memorial walk from the accident site to her home. It's been a pretty rough day but I've managed without letting anyone see how upset I truly am. It's not just the fact that a friend of mine died, it's the whole driving under the influence thing...I mean just recently, three kids died cuz they were walking near the road and a drunk driver hit them. A taxi driver told me and my gf that some lady got crushed or something along the lines of that by some sort of heavy machinery because some idiot construction worker was not only drinking and driving, he was on the job, in a large bulldozer, drunk. The construction workers on the job with him? All drunk. Isn't that unreal? How irresponsible can people be...It makes me sick. People view organizations like M.A.D.D. or S.A.D.D. or anything like that as ridiculous and overdramatic. They think it's a joke. "Who's dumb enough to drink and drive" - obviously, a lot of people. "What's the big deal, nothing's ever happened to me, if you only drink a little bit, who cares. " I'm sure the friends and families of people who've gone through losing someone because something as stupid as driving under the influence care quite a bit. It doesn't matter if it's "just a bit". Good for you if nothing's ever happened yet. It doesn't make it more responsible, it doesn't justify the action as right. It drives me crazy that people don't see that. Am I a crazy Teen Against Drunk Driving? No. I have looked into such organizations so that I could find comfort in other people who understood what I was going through when Sam passed...but...I've never been part of any organizations. Am I just hypersensitive because I've been affected by it? Partially, but it's not like I thought it was a good idea to begin with, for someone to get into a car drunk. Any views on this subject? Let me know what you think about this. I'd like to hear it. Or even any relating subjects. Wanna vent? Go ahead. Always here to hear it.
R.I.P. Sam
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:( drinking and driving is stupid, this was a really good post
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