Jump or Die

After reading this article on Tom Murphy’s snow boarding incident, I feel that life can be very fragile at times, and when our lives are at danger, the only people we will think of is our family.
From this article, we know that Tom Murphy is a breezy, energetic figure, he loves all kinds of sport, tried football, white-water rafting, bungee jumping parachuting, snow boarding and even sky diving. The article gives me the impression that he is a daring person, who likes to take up new challenges despite any risks. It is probably because he did so many kinds of sport thus he felt confident of himself, so he went for a slide in the mountains without telling his mate.
If I were he, I would never do such a thing, many such incidents have already shown the danger one will face without having a partner. At least he should have told someone where he was going, so that if he met any accidents, people will be looking around for him. Snowboarding alone on the mountains is already a wrong decision, yet he went off the safety boundary, ignoring all the warning notices just to get fun and excitement. I think it is a very unwise decision, danger warnings are there to prevent accidents from happening, they are there for reasons, and yet people always think that the people who set these warning notices are making a big fuss out of nothing, or they did think that they are already good enough. We should really educate people more on safety precautions and warning notices.
In the middle part of this article, he tapped a farewell massage into his phone, stating that he really regretted being there alone on the mountains, and really wished to be at home with his family, he love them all. After reading the message, for some reasons, the Sze Chuan earthquake incident flashed through. I remembered about a few weeks ago, I heard news on the Sze Chuan earthquake victims aired on 93.3 fm. The two DJs on duty were discussing about a women, who died, also did something that Tom Murphy did. She tapped a message on her mobile phone, telling her son not to be afraid and that she will always love him.
I thought it was quite touching by the fact that when our live are at critical situations, all we think of is our family, not assets, status or other materialism, but our loved ones. No matter how much some of us may hate them for forcing us to get down study, study and study, we will only picture the happy moments we have spent together as a family. So I feel that we should treasure them now, rather than to regret for not doing so.
Unlike the women from the Sze Chuan earthquake victims, Tom Murphy was lucky to be alive, however not everybody can be as incredibly lucky as him. I have chosen this article to once again emphasize that no matter what situations we are in, safety should come first.