Drugs & Speed

I've never seen xlx not slamming anyone (not that I read his blog often), but this really captured my attention. Especially the part about youths succumbing to ecstasy, not knowing the potential lure/shit they'll get themselves into.

There was a 24hr drug raid yesterday, and a 22 year old man got arrested. That's about my brother's age. That's scary. And his life is just gone. Just because he thinks he can get away with it. Another fella, a 47 year old man also got arrested, at a different location. That's about my father's age as well. These may just be ages over the airwaves, but that's TWO families destroyed. (I don't know which is worse - them coming from the same family and just plunging the whole family into despair, or two separate families where more people are devastated).

Why do they foolishly think that they can get away with it just because they've gotten away with it before? That's just pure dumbness. And when regret kicks in, it's really too late.

The other day when I was going for my exams, I saw two metal rods attached together to form a cross, with a cracked black car no. plate - SBN 1717L stuck across the horizontal bar. It was sticking out in the middle of PIE towards Bukit Timah exit - at the deadly curve. My heart just ached. That's the spot where someone died. That's the spot where the family or friend of the deceased stuck the cross to mark the spot of the deadly accident. This person might have just lost control of the car. He or she might have been a victim of another car. He or she might have been drinking. Or he or she might have been a victim of a drunk driver. The possibilities are endless - yet one thing remains true - death.

In the light of this - trivial things fade away, and important issues are foregrounded. Will we play russian roulette with our own lives? Or are we gonna seize the day and make important differences in other people's lives instead of taking them for granted, thinking they'll always be around? They might just leave us suddenly.