"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow"said Euripedes a long time ago. And this was re-inforced so very strongly to me this evening that I am still reeling..
While returning from an evening event in the Old Muscat area, we had to pass through Ruwi to reach home.Just near the roundabout we noted that there was a traffic blockage and slowly came right upto it.
Then suddenly I heard Avi telling me--"Don't look towards your right, just dont."
There was such a sense of urgency in his tone that I was shocked.Then did exactly what I shouldn't have.And saw what looked to be something,or was it someone under the wheels...
It was a man, who lay there,crushed under the wheels of a huge trailer and it was too late.
For any kind of help at all.
People milled around with a dazed look on their faces, it really was just too sudden to comprehend.We drove on because there was nothing that we could doand found ourselves speechless for a long, long time after that..
Life's cruel irony...A pedestrian crushed to death...
Now just a body that lay waiting to be retrieved
Then sent back home in a coffin.
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