tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651003496715492047.post-54796389304529618612007-03-15T21:36:00.000-07:002007-03-15T21:36:00.000-07:00Reading this reminded me of two losses that I had experienced this past January. Toward the end of the month, two people I know, one a year older and one two years younger, died in two separate car crashes roughly a week apart. Now, I didn't know either of them particularly well, but our paths had crossed at some point and their deaths really affected me for some reason. <BR/>I was depressed for quite a while, and I admit that I was questioning what I was doing with my life as were some of my friends who were dealing with the same situation. I considered dropping out of college and indulging every one of my whims, but after a while I got over this. <BR/>Now, this thing you're calling bullshit on, it's more of a defense mechanism than anything else. It's easier to feel bad about yourself and about something that you can deal with than it is to admit that there are some things in this world you have no control over. It’s easy to get caught up in life and sometimes it takes a tragic event like this to cause people to take a step back and look at what’s really going on.keems21http://www.blogger.com/profile/11769832328602878134noreply@blogger.com