WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

What do you mean where have we been?

Let us explain…not time to explain, let us sum up.

If you had to chose between having a friend killed behind the wheel of a car by:

a). A stolen car
b). A drunk driver
c). A driver running a red light
d). All of the above

Of course you don’t get to choose, none of use ever do.

So Jack was pronounced dead on the scene after behind hit by a stolen van, driven by a drunk driver running a red light. The air bags deployed, the seat belt was on. The road was dry. The speed limit was adhered to.

So, a brilliant man, who worked a crap job very much beneath him, died there – half on the road, half in his car because…just because those things happen.

Jack was brilliant because he knew more than you did and because he did less. Jack was the guy who would cut wood on weekend for cash and work a job that required a name tag for the ‘flexibility’. Jack went to more concerts, saw more sporting events and listened and read and lived more than most between 9-5 than most do in a lifetime. Jack could work philosophical works into discussions of how a fast-food joint oppresses its employees and poisons the nation. Jack could show how three hours of live music could end any argument on any subject. And he died.

Because we all do. We all do. And we never get to choose. We don’t get a choice.