I don’t normally write about current events, but an article by Paul Silva in our neighborhood paper, The Beach Reporter, made me realize I needed to write this.
Adam Rice
This week two young men from my hometown of Manhattan Beach had their lives end way too soon. One, a senior at the University of California at Berkeley, was spending a semester abroad in England. He was hit by a car as a pedestrian. He had looked the wrong way (the way we usually look in America) for oncoming traffic as he stepped off the curb to cross the street. The other young man, a high school student, was riding in the top of a double-decker bus celebrating a friend’s birthday. He stood up on his seat at the wrong time and hit his head on an overpass.
Mason Zisette
As a mother who has lost one of her sons (mine to suicide and just as sudden), I know the death of a child is the worst thing that can ever happen to a parent. And I just had to say how much I mourn with the parents and families of these two talented and able young men who had so much potential and such bright futures.
My friends like to say, Life isn’t fair. And that is the truth. As parents we do all we can to nurture our children and give them all the best we can afford so they can grow up to be successful adults. To have them snatched away in any way just isn’t fair not to them, not to us.
My sympathies go out to the parents and families of Adam Rice and Mason Zisette. I hope in time they find some comfort.
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