So, would it make you feel a lot better if you'd been injured in an accident caused by just run of the mill carelessness? Some moron with a cell-phone glued to their ear. Some twit that should never have been licensed in the first place? Some unlicensed illegal? You sound angry and bitter - excessively so.
EXcessively bitter? You can value the things that have been taken from me? WOW.
I am angry at what was taken from me and how. Pretty bold of you to say you can judge that as excessive. Don't you think?
What I do with those feelings is tell people about what happened to me. I do so in attempt to share truthful knowlege so that others may think about it when they make the choice to drink and drive.
I turn something bad into something good, I am sorry that you call that excessive.
I would like to know what you would say and do if you had doctors tell you that everything you have ever done in your life ( as to me that is holding and using tools) is gone....done....over...ended. Lose your 50 thousand a year career. Tell your kids you cannot play soccer or football with them. Go thru endless nights with elusive sleep. See your wife sued while insurance companies and lawyers are playing their games for years (when she wasn't even there and it wasn't even our vehicle). When you drop things due to the fact your left/arm/fingers/hand doesn't do what you 'tell'it to, when you bust a bottle of gatoraide all over someone at the gas station.
When you go pour a glass of milk and forget you even did it...leaving it sit right where you poured it. When you take an FDA drug and it gives you parkinsons like shakes that remain several years later, When your kids come to wish you a happy 30th birthday as you lay in a hospitoal bed from spinal surgery, as you sit and watch planes fly into buildings so stoned on vicodin ( among other drugs) that you have zero way to protect your family, as you deal with pain on a daily basis that makes things as simple as shaving difficult (sometimes undoable), as you try to do a sinkful of dishes and have to stop several times along the way, as you type with two fingers on your left hand because the others 'don't listen', Sir this list goes on and on and on....
And is all due to a person that didn't learn from their FIRST DUI and went on and did it again and hurt three people.
Talk to me about excessive sir, and tell me why I should not be bitter and angry. I try to turn that energy into something positive and I am told I preach, that I support augmented government, even that I am excessivelty angry and bitter. PUUUULEASE.
The damage done as a result of drinking and driving is real.
Make yourself feel better by calling outspokenness about it ecsessive all you want to. That doesn't change the truth about the efffects of mixing drinking and driving.
Bit of a rant? Maybe. Is it all true? ABSOLUTELY!