A recent news report spoke of an accident where a mother and child and three grown men were in an accident. The mother transferred by helicopter to a larger hospital. One of the three men brought to a local hospital to be checked out and discharged. The child died. Merely four years old, his life had barely started.
The local newspaper reported the mother had been talking on her cell phone, and crossed the center line-tragic, yes! The later news reports later reported she had been texting on her cell phone-yes, still tragic!
I am amazed at all the comments that followed the news articles. Mean, hateful words stating the mother should be put in prison for life. My thoughts are this. What worse could a mother’s life entail when the result of her mistake, a mistake many of have made without the same consequence cost her child’s life? Do you think she will ever for one minute forget that fatal mistake? Do you think her life will ever be the same without her son’s face ever-present in her life?
My question to all the haters is this-have you never made a mistake? Have you never talked or texted on your own cell phone while driving? Maybe, your child wasn’t in the car with you, but maybe the oncoming car was a van full of someone else’s children. Maybe you got lucky? Why is everyone so quick to point the finger when it wasn’t their mistake?
My greatest fear would be that I caused my own children such harm. Could I live my life and continue living with myself after such an accident? Mind you, the word is called “Accident” for a reason. I doubt this is something this mother will ever get past, I doubt this is something the child’s father will ever get past. They will forever be scarred for life.
So maybe if you have lived your life perfectly, having never made any mistakes-you have the right to judge. But for ten seconds, put yourself in that mother’s shoes, or better yet put yourself in the hospital bed she lay in with her heart beating while her own flesh and blood’s heart beat stopped days ago.
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