Lee - in her memory

Day 245 –We live in a very callous world. Such a story is unfolding right now in my country. A young woman, 25 years old, crossed the road legally, and was hit by a drunk driver who drove very fast. As it turned out, the driver, who holds a French citizenship, left her gravely wounded at the scene, drove home, packed some

clothes and drove with the friend that was with him at the car during the accident, to the airport and they both flew out of the country.  It took few days and an intense investigation to find out this part of the story, their running away from here, and everyone is in shock. They men tried to say in their defense that they are good people and all. The point is that they might have been good people until Thursday morning when they decided to get into a car while drunk and drive. They might have been good people until the moment they realized they hit a person with their car and instead of trying to save her life and bring her to the nearest hospital (few blocks away), or call for help they decided to run away from the scene. They might be pious people, but all that cannot make up for the crime they committed. No one blames them for waking up that morning and deciding to kill a young woman, but they did is take a dangerous weapon, the car, and used it while drunk. And this one bad decision ruined their life, but even more so, terminated prematurely the life of an innocent young woman, that all she did wrong, was to be there when these two men drove by. A young woman that had all her dreams ahead of her, and all stopped at that moment. We hear stories of hit and run too often, but even in that arena, what these two men did was an exception. To drive home, pack and flee the country, apparently changing planes several times to try to make it more difficult to track them, is beyond callous, it is a horrific crime and no amount of prayers can make up for something like that. It is appalling and so very wrong. I hope our country will be able to jump through all the legal hoops and to get these criminals expedited here so they can be brought to justice here, where they committed it.

There is nothing to be thankful about when you hear such a story. Maybe that these kind of people are so rare that everyone is in shock. If it was something more common, we’d be in a very different place right now, in a very sad world. Maybe it is a good place for me to be thankful for the other kind of people, those who can stun you with their kindness, and good deeds for no apparent reasons, just because they can or feel like it. I hope these kind of deeds will bring some hope and will light up a little the darkness that surrounds us right now.