Well, as everyone knows we had a great visit last Thursday & Friday. My fiance' calls me every Monday night, and asks me if I stayed the night up there at our friend's house. His visit is over at 7:45PM and by the time we get home it is Midnight. He prefers me to stay there (35 miles from the prison) so I'm not driving home at night, and I know he worries about me and our boys. He says he wants to make sure I'm going to be here when he gets out (doesn't want anything to happen to me on our late night drives home; understandable)

Well, Thursday before our visit there was a C/O there that was joking around with the other C/O's and my fiance' (he works in the hobby shop in the visit building) that he was going to give my fiance' a ride back to his dorm to prepare for our visit on his (The C/O's) motorcycle.
Well, when Jimmy called me Monday night he asked me if I had driven home or stayed at our friend's and I told him No, I came home. He went on to tell me that he wanted me to promise that I'd stay at our friend's house from now on and drive home the next day during daylight hours. Because that same officer that had the motorcycle was killed over the weekend, on his motorcycle in an accident.

This has made me realize that in a blink of an eye a loved one, or maybe someone you don't know all that well could be gone, That Quick!

Kelly

That is a scary thought isn't it? A person never really thinks about it until it happens. I wouldn't know what to do if someone close to me was to die like that. If someone is sick, a person can somewhat prepare for that. But if it's some sort of accident, then it hits really hard.

I never go a day without telling Billy that I love him. He may not hear me, but I tell him in heart and soul.

Yep, that is is a VERY scary thought. We lost a friend of ours (me & my brother) about 5+ yrs ago. He worked on an oil rig with my brother, he had an accident on the rig, he was only 34 at the time. From what I heard it was a pretty grisly accident. I guess you couldn't even recognize him anymore once he was at the hospital. He died that night. But, in some ways I'm glad I didn't go to the hospital and have that last memory of him, I still remember him as he looked when he was alive. He's still missed very much. But, it just goes to show that you can go to work one day and something/anything can happen and they're gone. The scary part there is that my brother still to this day works on an oil rig, I worry about the Brat daily. Then he had an accident but it was just a BIG pipe rolling over his foot and literally blew out his big toe!! OUCH! But, he's ok now.

Kelly

Life comes and goes so fast. It is amazing how fast you lose someone you love. I am trippin on some of the loses in my life that have happened real recently.. You are never prepared for death.. It so hard.

that's true...when they are sick you can somehow prepare yourself a little. A few years ago I lost a cousin, he was my age (15 at the time),we were born on the same day. He went on a school trip in the mountains, slipped, fell down from the mountain and was letterly crushed. Died instantly. That's my only comfort, that he didn't have to suffer. It's only once it happens to someone close to you, or somehow related to you, that you realize how fragile a human life is...

all the more reason we have to live right EVERY day, not hold grudges, forgive those who have hurt us, make amends with those we have had problems with, and let the ones we love know we love them everyday...

That is so true.. Live everyday as if it is you last.. Tomorrow is promised to no one..