How fragile is life?
*snaps finger*
Just like that.
...I remembered a recent ad that has various celebrities snapping fingers every few seconds, a blatant reminder that someone has died with that snap. It was supposed to be a humanitarian effort to promote sth but i forgot, but the message was outright clear: lives are taken as u laugh, sleep, work and thinking your loved ones will always be there. Nothing can be done to reverse it, and sometimes you just couldn't help but wonder whether anyone or anything should be blamed for a death.
Yesterday, LCP Calvin Chow, 19, NSF, passed away in SGH at 6.37 a.m., after a drawn-out struggle against death for 2 weeks. He suffered severe burns after a Taiwan F-5 fighter jet crashed within close proximity of an SAF facility in Taiwan. It brought the total fatality count of this unfortunate accident to 5. And without putting names, one of my friend happened to have Calvin Chow as his section mate during BMT. he was totally shocked. shocked not only that he was involved in that incident, but i believe it was also because someone close to him had to pass away in his youth, and under such unexpected circumstances. i think it would be hard for everyone to swallow it if it were to happen on them.
When i first heard of the crash, and the NS men who died innocently in the accident, i was pondering over this myself.
How can the deceased's families deal with such a blow?
How can someone take away my child/brother/loved one just like that?
Is it any fair to him or us?
How are we going to get over the loss?
How are we going to get justice for them when no one is to be blamed for this?
How exactly do we relieve ourselves of the anger and the sadness?
So many questions. Yet no answers to them.
Deepest condolences to the deceased families.
roadman_fake whizzed by at 9:06 PM
