I've been feeling down this entire week: I can't find a lab job, progress on school projects has been nil, one cousin was forced out of his apartment because the next door neighbors had a fire that spread to said cousin's apartment and trashed the bedroom, and another cousin got hit by a cab because the cab was trying to speed ahead of some pedestrians and didn't see my cousin.
The latter is still in the hospital, and while yeah it was easy to make "Evil BP accountant got hit by a cab lookit the karma" we were talking and like… he's going to live but he was hurt moderately badly? ACL is whacked out, dislocated shoulder, bruises everywhere, a blood clot in his leg that if it moves could kill him…
Like, I didn't realize how close I came to losing him until like, 5 hours ago? And this is the cousin who just got married, who is like, my annoying sarcastic clever shit of a cousin, and I almost lost him and it just hit me, and it makes all of my other problems seem so insignificant because I just lost him, and I'm kinda crying about it at the moment?
I just want people to stop dying, okay? Or having near death experiences… but that's life…