Ours is not to Question why

A few weeks ago my cousin Nick was in a terrible one person accident. He was speeding, and managed to roll his car several times. In the process he was ejected from the vehicle, broke his neck, half scalped him self, shattered ribs, stopped breathing, and had to be life flighted to Joplin Mo, (yep that Joplin, to the hospital that didn't get blown away).

He spent two weeks sedated and on a ventilator. But once he started to improve, he did so rapidly. He was dismissed from Freeman and sent home with his mom on Christmas eve.

Great story about a Christmas miracle, isn't it?

Except here's the thing. Nick is a terrible human being. He was homeless and living out of that car at the time of the accident. He is a drug addict who was perpetrating break ins and armed robberies to support himself. The car he totaled wasn't even his. He had stolen it from his late father's estate.

Now, aside from the stiff neck brace he needs to wear for a few months until the neck fracture heals, he's better off than before. He's staying with his mother, who has a big screen TV, Cable, internet, food, comfy bed, and is carefully doling out the pain pills.

He has lost some hearing and will probably be able to live the rest of his life on social security. Just what this nation needs, another drug addict living on the government.

Here's what's bugging me.

On the 20 of December a guy I went to high school with was in a terrible car accident. He spent days on life support and in theraputic hypothermia in the ICU in a Kansas City hospital. Today instead of a miracle, his family is planning a funeral.

This man never harmed another person. He was a youth pastor and true man of God. Even in school he was nice and sweet.

Why is a human waste left on the planet to use, abuse and manipulate, and a kind person taken?

I don't understand, and as glad as I am that my family is not planning to bury Nick, or planning his long term care, it pisses me off.

In other great news from my crappy family, my brother Mike is in jail. He probably wont get out for a long time. And my other brother is talking about choosing to hitchhike off into the wild rather than take a job he feels is below him and staying put and paying his child support.

I want a familial redo.