09-06-12, 11:50 PM
Sad to read this.
If it helps I lost a friend last year due to a biking accident. My immediate response was to question the importance of riding at all. At 52 years I was forced to examine the exposure to danger that riding motorcycles gave, and it made no sense to me at all. Why risk your life to ride a bike I asked?
Over the next few weeks I wrestled with thoughts such as those. In the end you have to imagine what life would be without risk? Safer? - No doubt, but certainly not life as we know it. However dark it looks today I hope your buddy comes through this and makes a full recovery, and if that's the case no doubt he would like to ride a bike again too. You can't legislate for 'wrong time wrong place' occurrences, which means you can't avoid them either, you might just as easily inadvertently choke on one bite of an apple.
If it helps I lost a friend last year due to a biking accident. My immediate response was to question the importance of riding at all. At 52 years I was forced to examine the exposure to danger that riding motorcycles gave, and it made no sense to me at all. Why risk your life to ride a bike I asked?
Over the next few weeks I wrestled with thoughts such as those. In the end you have to imagine what life would be without risk? Safer? - No doubt, but certainly not life as we know it. However dark it looks today I hope your buddy comes through this and makes a full recovery, and if that's the case no doubt he would like to ride a bike again too. You can't legislate for 'wrong time wrong place' occurrences, which means you can't avoid them either, you might just as easily inadvertently choke on one bite of an apple.