Liger's Hideout

So, the other day as I was waiting in the orthodontist office, I heard a girl say that she would never ski again because she broke her ankle.  I thought that was very sad and even a little silly.  I broke my arm standing on a stool, does that mean I should lower all of our cabinets?  I injured my tail bone walking down the stairs and couldn't go to band for a week, do I install ramps instead?  I don't know how many times I've injured myself in dance, should I quit?  They were all freak accidents!  In the United States of America alone, every 13 minutes somebody is killed in a car crash.  In a year, a single year, 365 days, 1.2 million people world wide are killed from car crashes.  That's 1.2 million people no longer among us because of a simple accident, a twist of fate, a miscalculation.  Did their loved ones buy horses to ride around town, giving up cars completely?  There are people out there who receive life threatening injuries while doing things they loved, sky-diving, parachuting, rafting, whatever, and they continue doing those things!  Perhaps if we all were just a little bit braver, a little bit stronger...Just because you get struck by lightning while walking your dog, do you buy a cat?

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