Nau speak: Vegas: Accidents and Nature

Accidents happen. In a city where alcohol consumption is highly encouraged and made highly accessible, accidents might happen at a higher than average rate. I certainly have no idea whether the driver of the vehicle pictured above was drinking, and it was rather early in the day, but who knows. Life is mysterious and full of many unknowns and unanswered questions. One thing we do know for certain is that the driver of the aforementioned vehicle was not having the best day of her life, no sir.

Hopefully things have all been taken care of, as this occurred several months back now. No one was injured, except for perhaps the driver's pride, but considering that it was a highly trafficked parking lot with a lot of pedestrian traffic, things really could have gone much worse.

And while I wasn't involved in any direct way, I do have to admit that seeing car accidents can cause my anxiety to go up a wee bit. So, lucky for us, Antho happened to snap some nice shots of dew drops forming on grass, along with some other nature scenery, to take the edge off of the unfortunate collision of metal above.

There we go, much better. Look at those lovely shades of green! A lush oasis is hidden in the Vegas valley, in the midst of the Mojave desert! Lovely. The blue sky above speckled with scattered wisps of clouds, clear and bright. I mean, we all have accidents in life from time to time, and while it can be easy to dwell on the pain and inconvenience they can cause, we should really be grateful that we're able to walk away from them. There are so many ways to blink out of existence and be gone before we know what hit us, each day we make it out alive is a triumph over the odds. I know that for me, that realization has made a profound impact on how I view aging and birthdays. It's a literal leveling up, and a lot of us drop out early in the game. I'm going on my third decade in life now and I can honestly say I'm glad to still be here, which wasn't something I necessarily expected to be able to say at some of the harder stages of my life. It hasn't always been easy, and there will be many challenges yet to come in the road ahead, but if we can confront them with gratitude and wisdom gleaned from time passed, we're on the right path.