Avoiding the Unavoidable: Writing on Car Crashes and Breakups | Writing | Vancouver | Musings, Tangents, Rants

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | Author: stinkwallet

Alley | Vancouver

Sometimes it’s all that we can do to try and avoid an unavoidable situation. In essence it’s impossible. It doesn’t matter the pace we take as we are racing towards a wall or our ability to turn quickly, something that is unavoidable is exactly that.

No matter what the signs say along the way, we plunge in, and sometimes it feels like we’re drowning. Everything feels so similar, and yet, so nearly unique. We become accustomed to our worlds, the places that we create by just being alive. We can cause them all to crumble by speaking a couple of words, and often we do just that.

We are intricately tied to this delicate place, and it is impossible to avoid the unavoidable, and though each of us has come to know this, it doesn’t make the unavoidable any more easy to avoid, and it doesn’t make a crash hurt any less than it does.

oops,

crash…