Maia

aww i totally feel for you, that’s so sad!

when i was really young, maybe 4 or 5, i had gotten a glass down from the cabinet to fill it up with water for my twin sister. because i was so little, i set the glass on the floor while i poured the water. when i was finished i went to put the water in the refrigerator, and i left the glass on the floor. my sister didnt notice i had done so, and stepped directly on the glass. we had to go to the hospital with her foot gushing blood, shards of glass sticking out from the countless rolls of toilet paper my mom wrapped around her foot before we left the house.

but i think what makes an accident is when the action comes from innocence, not malicious intent or negativity.

Susana/Susy

Aw I’m so sorry to hear that Caity, but you are very right when you say it was just an accident. It’s like you meant for it to happen, plus like you said you weren’t doing anything bad so don’t feel bad. You are not a horrible person, stuff like that happens so you shouldn’t feel bad.

Here is my accident story hehe:

It’s been snowing where I’m at and I was driving to work, now I’m a really good driver especially in snow but this time it was a little out of my control so when I felt the car slipping I pressed on the break a little harder then I should have and it skidded out of control. Now I was okay, thank goodness but I accidentally hit my car against the side of one of those pole things and now I have a huge skid mark on my car that doesn’t look good. All I have to say is thank god I am okay, but it was still scary, I was crying and shaking.

@Maia – ouch that sounds like a painful story, but again it was just an accident. It’s not like you had intentionally done it you know? And I def agree it isn’t malicious intent and it’s not like we are trying to do it on purpose.

Kendra

I remember driving home late one night and a cat darted out into the street and I hit it…I pulled over and ran to the side of the road and held in my arms…I felt the cats heart beat…it was still alive…there was blood dripping from its nose and its heart beat was going sooooooo fast…until I felt it slowly fade away to nothing…I am a HUGE animal lover too and I screamed and cried…while I watched the kitty die.

I still to this day feel terrible about that night and sometimes the image of it haunts me. At the time I didn’t know what to do to heal the devestation…and was mortified thinking about how the family must feel who loved and cared for that cat, and if they would ever know what happened to it.

I am not sure I could have done anything to prevent what happened, and I am not sure if there was a lesson to learn except, life is precious and life as we know it can change in a blink of an eye and that we can’t always control the things around us. I can take responsibility for the fact that I was driving and my car hit the cat, but I too wasn’t speeding or texting (OMG there weren’t even cell phones then!) I guess we have to accept that we live in a world where bad things can happen and we are not perfect people.

Caitlin

Aw gals, thanks so much for the stories. I wrote this last weekend and I’ve still been thinkin’ about it. Obviously I knew I wasn’t the only one with a story like that, it’s just nice to actually read some.

Kendra, that’s so incredibly kind. So many people would have just driven away, whether they didn’t care, or were just scared, but you actually stopped and stayed with it.

Maia, that’s so cool that you have a twin sister, ha when I was little I pretended that I had a twin sister and told everyone that I did… but actually didn’t. I was a weird one…
Even though it was an accident and was NOBODYS fault, I still see how you’d feel bad about it.

Susy, I haven’t driven in the snow yet… but I’m SO SCARED to… I just feel like I would panic in that kind of situation, ya know?

mischiff11

Well this is gna sound a little bad but trust me I felt really bad when this happened.

When I was like 7 or 8 I was always into martial arts and stuff so when it came to halloween time I wanted to be a ninja.. so my mom got me the costume and everything and it even came with little plastic knives. So the night of halloween just before we left i started playing with my plastic knives and trying to be a ninja and everything while my sister was waiting on the couch (she was like 4 feet away from me) and I turned to her to show her something with the knives and just as i was about to do something “cool” the plastic knife slipped out of my hand and just sorta skimmed her eye!! She started to cry and I said that i would kiss it better and constantly said sorry to her.. but when you get my sister mad or make her cry you better run for dear life!

There are a lot of things that happen to us but all we can do is learn from it and try not to let it happen again.. for me its to not play with plastic knives in front of my sister!!

G

Every day is an accident for me, haha.