Do you remember the movie "Speed"? When Kelli and I saw it, I remember wondering whether or not the people on that bus would keep in touch after the ordeal they endured together. Some of them would probably never ride a bus again; some of them got on the replacement bus the next morning.
Of course, that's Hollywood. But something much more real happened in Madrid last week, and it has me thinking the same thought. Rail transportation in Europe is much more pervasive than it is here, so it's quite possible that many of the people on those trains last Thursday morning knew each other. And now, with this horror in common, I have to wonder how many life-long friendships will be formed. It's a shame that it takes something like this to form real, permanent friendships, but that is human nature.
It's funny, but the people who I am closest to are the people who have either seen me at my worst are have been through those bad times with me.
Posted by Matthew at March 16, 2004 07:16 PM