22-04-15, 10:10 PM
Risti, the side effect of having children is that you become far more aware of you own safety. I have 2 and even though they are now 24 and 30, I still worry about them.
If you look back over the past years the idiots trying to kill you were still there everyday, but you were more inclined to take it in you stride and not think about it to much. Suddenly how important your life is to a small child is takes over and all the dangers suddenly become much larger.
What woke me up to reality was coming on an accident in which 6 people including 2 children were killed in two cars stopped at a set of traffic lights in Dublin many years ago, a truck turning at the lights overturned and tipped its load onto them. The driver of the 3rd car suffered serious crush injuries.
These people would have considered themselves relatively safe in relatively safe surroundings and yet were wiped out in a split second.
It might be good to take a few weeks break if it is possible, but as to selling the bike I would say no.
We had a dilemma the month after the 9/11 disaster in; do we allow our eldest to go on the student exchange to the US or not. All the parents met and the majority of parents allowed the kids to go including us. The reason was simple, what would we do if something happened to the school bus on the busy road to school when he should have been in the US, we would never forgive ourselves for not letting him go.
I had a serious bike crash in 2002 with a lorry and for 3 weeks after it was touch and go if I survived. 9 operations and 3 months later I left the hospital The thought of giving up the bike crossed my mind more than once yet the day I went back on it 6 weeks after coming out of hospital, I had 3 volunteers for the pillion seat.
If you look back over the past years the idiots trying to kill you were still there everyday, but you were more inclined to take it in you stride and not think about it to much. Suddenly how important your life is to a small child is takes over and all the dangers suddenly become much larger.
What woke me up to reality was coming on an accident in which 6 people including 2 children were killed in two cars stopped at a set of traffic lights in Dublin many years ago, a truck turning at the lights overturned and tipped its load onto them. The driver of the 3rd car suffered serious crush injuries.
These people would have considered themselves relatively safe in relatively safe surroundings and yet were wiped out in a split second.
It might be good to take a few weeks break if it is possible, but as to selling the bike I would say no.
We had a dilemma the month after the 9/11 disaster in; do we allow our eldest to go on the student exchange to the US or not. All the parents met and the majority of parents allowed the kids to go including us. The reason was simple, what would we do if something happened to the school bus on the busy road to school when he should have been in the US, we would never forgive ourselves for not letting him go.
I had a serious bike crash in 2002 with a lorry and for 3 weeks after it was touch and go if I survived. 9 operations and 3 months later I left the hospital The thought of giving up the bike crossed my mind more than once yet the day I went back on it 6 weeks after coming out of hospital, I had 3 volunteers for the pillion seat.