dyanna’s blog

sometimes I just don’t understand life. What makes one person decide to go out, get blaringly drunk, then drive home? (or at least attempt to drive home). 

My sister was killed by a drunk driver. She was 14 years old, and riding her bicycle home with a friend. A drunk driver came upon her,and in that split second, took her life. He then proceeded to drive back to the bar, where he got even drunker.  As awful as this is…the worst part is that the justice system failed my sister. Her killer never was charged. The fact that he drove back to the bar, helped him. The police could not prove that he had been drunk before hitting Marie. He wasn’t even charged with the hit and run he was so clearly guilty of.

I don’t understand life. What makes a 20 year old drive home drunk, get a DUI? And worse yet, what makes him brag about it at a party? And tell people that he wasnt’ drunk, after clearly stating that he had gotten loaded, then slept for two hours. Two hours elapsed between his drunken revelry and the drive home which resulted in a DUI. What gives him the right to act as though that weren’t a serious crime?

What if he had killed someone. Would it have beensomething to brag about? Joke about? Talk about as though it were no big deal?

and what gives one’s friends the right to take advantage of them when they are drunk? 

Why am I writing this at 11:30 on a Saturday night?

Worse still…why am i pushing the “publish” link?….