There's mornings and there's mornings
Yesterday I decided to give myself an extra 20 minutes of sleep this morning. Woke up at seven by some idiots alarm that just wouldn't stop. When my unfriendly phone told me to get up at 07:48 I had had almost an hour of very very strange sleep. As I left the house the alarm was still on and my mood was dark.
Got on the bus and started reading my book just like any other morning. And indeed it was just like any other morning until half of the bus loudly breathed in at the same time and all the south american women I usually travel with, looked towards my direction.
I managed to turn my head to the left just in time to see the ambulance men cover a dead man. From the head a massiva pool of blood just got bigger. The feet where still sticking out from under the thermo blanket. White pop-socks. Another man in a black t-shirt was picking up random belongings around the body. Slowly slowly. Sadly. The bus started again and further ahead people were sitting in parked cars. The police started redirecting traffic.
We continue on and way after I saw the moto he had been traveling on. Honda. Lying so far away it was almost as it had nothing to do with the other scene.
Someone is going to get, or just got, a really sad phone call today.
Got on the bus and started reading my book just like any other morning. And indeed it was just like any other morning until half of the bus loudly breathed in at the same time and all the south american women I usually travel with, looked towards my direction.
I managed to turn my head to the left just in time to see the ambulance men cover a dead man. From the head a massiva pool of blood just got bigger. The feet where still sticking out from under the thermo blanket. White pop-socks. Another man in a black t-shirt was picking up random belongings around the body. Slowly slowly. Sadly. The bus started again and further ahead people were sitting in parked cars. The police started redirecting traffic.
We continue on and way after I saw the moto he had been traveling on. Honda. Lying so far away it was almost as it had nothing to do with the other scene.
Someone is going to get, or just got, a really sad phone call today.
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And there are mournings.
Life take turns. Carpe diem.
That's a very sad start to the morning indeed.
On a lighter note, I read that over 1000 people had been killed in their homes in Beirut since the start of July; 'Talibans' in Afghanistan hung a woman and her son from a tree in brad daylight as they thought they were government spies; 16 people have been shot or blown up in various 'hot spots' in Iraq in the past 24 hours; a Canadian soldier died from an "accident involving a handgun" (whatever that means) and that's just from the first five pages of El Pais.
Sadness is all around us.
Life sure does take turns.
It makes you think once or twice on what really matters in life...
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