About a month ago, I started to attend a new computer course. It was a small class consisting of 7 individuals, age ranging from early 30s to mid 40s. Surprisingly, there were quite a high ratio of women in a technical class which was a welcoming sign. Three of those women were congregating outside of the class before class started, seems like they are co workers from a tech company. One of the women seemed particularly familiar, her name and her voice and her face. I kept wondering where I had seen her before.
The first class commenced, as I sat attentively attempting to absorb the maximum amount of knowledge from the teacher as I needed to achieve top marks in order to get my course fee reimbursed by my workplace. But the familiar face was sitting in front of me and I was still trying to recall where had I seen that face. Then, I remembered, that's the girl from yoga class who the teacher always calls upon. The girl with the long slender frame with long streched arms and legs. So, I tapped her shoulder and asked if she remembers me from our yoga class, she nods happily and asks if I been going to yoga class relgiously which I haven't. She says with a grin that "Wow everyone looks so different with actual street clothes on". We exchanged a few conversations and realized what a coincidence she also works one street away from me. What a coincidence I thought, small world! I was glad to meet another acquaintance that I had known for a while but have not really had a chance to speak to.
The second class comes along, I chatted a little more with the other classmates as well as this yoga friend. Class ends and we all go our separate ways! Several weeks pass,yesterday I was in yoga class wondering Hmm..where did that girl go?
Two days ago in the early morning, there was a hit and run shown on the local news and a woman was badly injured later losing her life. She was crossing the cross walk when she was struck by a speeding vehicle. The news was very sad and was much talked about by the local community. My brother was relating the news to me as well, I was shocked but also curious about who this person is. He described the victim and immediately felt something was wrong but couldn't tell why. Today as I was reading the news, they published the name of the victim and that happens to be the same first name as my yoga friend, at this point, I was quite disturbed. So I went along to check the last name of the victim and sadly enough, I believe it is the same person.
She was young, beautiful, intelligent, full of laughter and life just not long ago and now she leaves a grieving husband. I am not sure what I should do, I feel like placing some flowers where the event happened or should I inquire about the incident from a mutual acquaintance. Although I did not know her that well but I did know her in passing. I was shocked today, realized life is very short indeed and who knows what to expect about tomorrow. Just like the hymm my mother always hums to on the Piano, " I don't know about Tomorrow". How could the driver who struck her just leave her to die on the sidewalk, how can a fellow human be so cruel, all these thoughts arise. I pray that she is safe in heaven and guarded by the angels. I hope in time her husband will be consoled.
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