Yesterday a far too peppy women on the radio said,
"There was a crash there an hour ago but should be cleared out of the way really soon!"
Then she was on to the next segment.
As if it were not big thing that some humans probably collided at who knows what speed and possibly might be dead. I hear it every single day living in LA.
Very little thought about the bodies always phrases like, "Should get the traffic moving soon once we get the wreckage out of the way."
Is that how we talk about people who die from cancer.
Well, got that all out of the way. No. We walk, run and wear ribbons for cancer.
Car crashes are the same thing as cancer as far as I'm concerned. Both are horrible but the horrible thing about car crashes is we know how to help prevent up to 80% of them, yet we don't.
We raise money to find a cure, we race for it. We are desperate for it for our love ones watching them suffer from fear and pain from cancer. It's awful.
Also, if you were diagnosed with cancer, would you just sit there and do nothing? I understand a slim select do that, but the majority choose treatment to try and battle it.
Where is the battle for safer roads?
It is awful and dangerous, the way the newscasters callously talk about car crashes and no one seems to shed much light on this subject.
Wake up.
Speak up.
Just speak up at your dinner table tonight.
Our minds need to shift, sooner rather then later.