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Fox-Trot-9

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Yep. One of my best friends died in a car accident years ago. Killed in a t-bone accident by a drunk driver. Totally fucked up. But it's not just drunk assholes. It's stupid motherfuckers, too. A few years ago, my parents and I got hit by a stupid fuck turning left on a fucking red light. Put my mom in the hospital for two days. No surgery on her back, thank God, but she had to have surgery on her foot, and she hasn't been the same since then.
 
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Well, your concern and anxiety is pretty much understandable. However, just as you said, luck is also involved in life, and we can't always predict what may happen to us.

Any case, just live. If you find yourself unable to function normally because of what happened, you may want to think of seeking professional help.
 

owotrucked

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Yep life is fundamentaly unfair. Only human efforts can help level the field. Otherwise, it's just a chaotic fiesta.

Like, catching a random cold isn't as life threatening as ancient times. I'm sure the world could take measures to solve car crashes, but in the meantime, we dont have a choice but to go outside to enjoy life and potentially just die. If you're too upset about it, you can be an actor for road safety maybe?
 

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one thing that makes me sad the most is car accidents. id see videos where a person is not doing anything bad, just walking, just existing, and then suddenly a car slides by and kills him. imagine that person has dreams, has worked hard to become an honor student, has a great family and friends, and then CRASH, his life is gone, just like that. unexpected, unceremonious, his future has been taken away by some drunk driver.

life is 100% luck.

and because of that, i cant go outside without feeling anxious.

idk man, accidents are just brutal. you do hear "everything happens for a reason," but nah, that person's death is unreasonable. its just that lady luck decided to kill him and chortle like "oho! you're dead." i think this is exactly the reason why religions exist so that we can cope with the unfairness of life by praying to god or something. like you're thinking "its alright if luck kills me because i can go straight to heaven anyway" so you inhale this copium as much as you can to avoid anxiety or paranoia

i just fucking hate car accidents because they give you this arbitrary hopelessness. so you experienced one, and it made your face and body an ugly mess, you cant hear properly, you cant think properly because of brain damage, but you're still living, always thinking like "damn, what if i wasn't in my car that day? i would have been living my life to the fullest," regretting it over and over and over again, feeling the desperate urge to go back in time to fix that one simple-ass mistake that ruined your life, and then you start to think like "there are other people who have it worse than me" and that is THE ONLY WAY to cope with your bad luck

car accidents are fucked. i wish vehicles dont exist.

(i almost got into a car accident, so that's why im complaining. i could have died in TWO WAYS, but lady luck was still kind enough to save my scratchy ass)

but eh. that's life.
stop being a little bitch. Life is never luck. Its choices. And you just are not able to calculate everything and make the right choice. Nobody is able to. God is tho.

But then your little ass says, religion is a coping mechanism. Like bro have you studied all the religion? Ofc not. You probably haven't studied a single one properly. Naturally only one religion is true others are fake.

And if religion is true then aren't you absolutely fucked later? Again, look out and see. The good people are always hated and for no reason at that. You will see that in yourself, somehow you can't stand a good person,cuz he seems like a goodie to shoes. But never does it come to your mind that you are just a hypocrite?

But anyways, atheists always, i mean always regret their life in their dead bed, wishing that they had a single ray of hope to hang on. A god!

Last but not least, you know that the things in movies mostly come from real life. Humans cannot think of something out of nothing, so how in the seven hells did the concept of god come in human without His existence?

Well, if you have ptsd, go see a doc.
 

T.K._Paradox

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If life is truly what you think it is, a gamble, why not decided to live it?

If you die so be it, you've come this far despite the odds so enjoy it while you still have it.

And as cheesy as it sounds, go not into the inky blackness or brilliant light with regrets, live each day as your last.
 

Zirrboy

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There's an easy way to preempt any threat to your safety and aspirations. Make your existence something you don't mind losing, or better yet end things yourself. "100% control" over your life.

Or maybe take a look at the others' approaches, if for whatever reason this entirely logical conclusion doesn't take your interest.
 

ElijahRyne

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one thing that makes me sad the most is car accidents. id see videos where a person is not doing anything bad, just walking, just existing, and then suddenly a car slides by and kills him. imagine that person has dreams, has worked hard to become an honor student, has a great family and friends, and then CRASH, his life is gone, just like that. unexpected, unceremonious, his future has been taken away by some drunk driver.

life is 100% luck.

and because of that, i cant go outside without feeling anxious.

idk man, accidents are just brutal. you do hear "everything happens for a reason," but nah, that person's death is unreasonable. its just that lady luck decided to kill him and chortle like "oho! you're dead." i think this is exactly the reason why religions exist so that we can cope with the unfairness of life by praying to god or something. like you're thinking "its alright if luck kills me because i can go straight to heaven anyway" so you inhale this copium as much as you can to avoid anxiety or paranoia

i just fucking hate car accidents because they give you this arbitrary hopelessness. so you experienced one, and it made your face and body an ugly mess, you cant hear properly, you cant think properly because of brain damage, but you're still living, always thinking like "damn, what if i wasn't in my car that day? i would have been living my life to the fullest," regretting it over and over and over again, feeling the desperate urge to go back in time to fix that one simple-ass mistake that ruined your life, and then you start to think like "there are other people who have it worse than me" and that is THE ONLY WAY to cope with your bad luck

car accidents are fucked. i wish vehicles dont exist.

(i almost got into a car accident, so that's why im complaining. i could have died in TWO WAYS, but lady luck was still kind enough to save my scratchy ass)

but eh. that's life.
When these things happen I tend of thinking of ways we could have prevented it. To me, accidents will always happen, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do our best to prevent them. For the majority of the world car accidents, while not totally preventable, are able to be massively reduced, especially inside populated areas. Car manufacturers the world over have done their best to erode pedestrian rights, to them it is not the driver wielding the 2 ton death machine who is responsible for the majority of pedestrian accidents, but the pedestrian. This is of course because that is the more profitable opinion for them. Reintroducing and strengthening these rights will be a good starting point, but cities and towns are currently designed for cars and not people.

Another thing we can do is make our towns and cities safer for bikers and pedestrians. Divert highways and freeways that cut apart our towns and cities. Create and maintain bike paths and sidewalks. This will remove more areas where these accidents could happen.

Next we can remove more cars from the roads by investing in alternate types of transportation such as busses, trams, subways, trains, and bikes. Although cars will still be necessary for more rural folk whose jobs, stores, and hospitals are 20 or so miles away. We can reduce the number of accidents by removing inputs such as cars, and places where they are like to happen, such as a freeway in the middle of a populated area. We can also invest in those rural towns to give them those necessary locations, removing more points where an accident could happen. Of course cars will not be eradicated, they are the cheapest and easiest way to travel 20-80 miles, but their presence on the road and their menace to our towns and cities can be reduced. Lady Luck may find a way to still kill someone on our roads in our cities, but at the very least we would have done our best to stop her. She may still destroy commuting families, but we would have done our best to stop her. She may kill with our busses and trains but we would have done our best to stop her.
 

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one thing that makes me sad the most is car accidents. id see videos where a person is not doing anything bad, just walking, just existing, and then suddenly a car slides by and kills him. imagine that person has dreams, has worked hard to become an honor student, has a great family and friends, and then CRASH, his life is gone, just like that. unexpected, unceremonious, his future has been taken away by some drunk driver.

life is 100% luck.

and because of that, i cant go outside without feeling anxious.

idk man, accidents are just brutal. you do hear "everything happens for a reason," but nah, that person's death is unreasonable. its just that lady luck decided to kill him and chortle like "oho! you're dead." i think this is exactly the reason why religions exist so that we can cope with the unfairness of life by praying to god or something. like you're thinking "its alright if luck kills me because i can go straight to heaven anyway" so you inhale this copium as much as you can to avoid anxiety or paranoia

i just fucking hate car accidents because they give you this arbitrary hopelessness. so you experienced one, and it made your face and body an ugly mess, you cant hear properly, you cant think properly because of brain damage, but you're still living, always thinking like "damn, what if i wasn't in my car that day? i would have been living my life to the fullest," regretting it over and over and over again, feeling the desperate urge to go back in time to fix that one simple-ass mistake that ruined your life, and then you start to think like "there are other people who have it worse than me" and that is THE ONLY WAY to cope with your bad luck

car accidents are fucked. i wish vehicles dont exist.

(i almost got into a car accident, so that's why im complaining. i could have died in TWO WAYS, but lady luck was still kind enough to save my scratchy ass)

but eh. that's life.
Yes, I believe life is luck. You are lucky you were born in a country without war. You were lucky you were born normally. You were lucky you were born in a place where you could get food to eat, and water to drink. You were lucky you have/had an education. And, as this is luck, there are many children, animals, and other forms of life (maybe) –– who didn’t have as much luck.

When I am left to my own devices, nothing to distract me, these thoughts guilt-trip me to oblivion. Awful, wretched thoughts. However, I’ve learned to just accept that this is life, and I don’t have the power to do anything. I’m not a super hero, nor am I some omniscient, all-knowing, all-powerful god. I am just another human living my life. All I can do is grieve and feel down. But that gets me nowhere, does it?

I try to donate to charities, do some volunteer work, and just overall do something. I don’t have the wealth to end world hunger, I don’t have the resources to provide for every unfortunate person in the world, and I certainly don’t have the magic to rid the world of strife. I do, however, have compassion and my own set of morals.
 

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I see so much impatience and inattention on roads. I don't drive, I cycle, half my attention has to be on the pavements to watch for sleep-walkers stepping out in front of me. Naturally they get an earful when they do. I've screamed at cyclists running red lights too, honestly if I could get a hold of them, they wouldn't be going to A&E for an 'accident'. No, that would be 100% deliberate and very painful. My son could be crossing, I've taught him to look and check first even if the green man is on, but he is blind in one eye and will probably not see a cyclist hurtling out of nowhere with no lights and dark clothing.
I don't believe in accidents. I believe in stupid fucks being allowed out their house so everyone else has to be on high alert for their stupidity and fuckwittery. Sadly, it's not always only themselves they write off.
 

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If you're dealing with anxiety, phobia, or anything similar, don't be afraid or embarrassed to get help. If you sprain your knee, you go to an orthopedist. If you have heart issues, you go to a cardiologist. There should be no shame in seeing someone if your brain is causing problems. One difference is finding one that's a good fit for you is more important than other specialists, so don't feel you have stick with the first one you meet and you can't switch.

I know logic doesn't help much with emotional stuff, but I'm a traffic safety engineer. We measure safety in crashes per million miles traveled. Car travel is rather safe. A lot more so than it was a few decades ago.

I hope this helps, and I hope you find what you need.
 
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