Ugh - do you do this?

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Warning: sad.

The road to Mia's preschool was completely shut down this AM. Cops and firetrucks and medics. Come to find out a 22 year-old crashed his new BMW into a wall around 6am, and it burst into flames. He was trapped inside and neighbors could hear him screaming. He didn't make it.

So off and on today I keep thinking somewhere there is a mom and dad, and family and friends in a lot of pain over this loss. And this is really messing with me. Pre-kids this never happened, really. But now I'm all sorts of freaked out over tragedies. They stay with me for a long time.

[cleo29]

Gosh, that is so sad.

Yes and this is definitely true for H. ANything involving kids getting seriously injured or killed hits him really hard.

[Ruby Gloom]

I do this so much. All. Of. The. Time. Saturday during DS#1's graduation party, a friend of DS#2 dove into a pool at another friend's house and broke his neck, severing his spine. I am obsessed with his CaringBridge page and have been a teary mess ever since. A month ago, my young cousin's girlfriend was thrown from her vehicle in a car accident and died. I almost cannot bear to see my kids drive away. I want to grab onto them and not let go. And the parents...my heart just breaks for those moms and those families. It is so hard having kids.

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Jun 21, 2012 14:51:27 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

OMG. :(

I think about that kind of thing a lot, that everyone is somebody's kid. I did even before I had one. It hits me especially with criminals (flameful?). I just think that they were somebody's little baby once upon a time.

Me too

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That is awful. I do the same thing, now more because we have kids.

[hubes]

Yes. I was just thinking about that this morning. A town near us had a horse go crazy at the 4th of July parade, killing a woman and injuring a bunch of little kids. I think about that woman's family a lot.