Thirty-three years ago today …

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Robert Ringer

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Thirty-three years ago today, my 29-year-old nephew — a young, bright, ambitious entrepreneur — left the house a little before 6:30 a.m., assuming, no doubt, that it would be yet another exciting, productive day in his life.

Then, suddenly, Fate stepped in and changed all that in an instant. All his hopes, all his dreams, his exciting vision of the future — gone, just like that.

A pickup truck had smashed into his Datsun broadside at an intersection without even braking. One of the paramedics who arrived on the scene shortly after the accident told me he was certain my nephew never even had a moment to think about what was happening, because his car left no skid marks. The investigating officer told me it was one of the worst city-street collisions he had ever investigated.

In this day and age of beheadings and mass slayings, it’s easy to forget that when ANYONE dies for ANY reason, especially someone very young, it’s just as much of a tragedy as a death that makes national headlines.

Fate is a fickle trickster, to be sure, and often deals from the bottom of the deck. Had my nephew left his apartment a minute earlier or a minute later, the accident, in theory at least, would not have happened.

R.I.P., Mickey. It’s hard to believe it’s been 33 years since that fateful morning — and difficult to grasp the fact that you would now be sixty-two-years old. I can only imagine what an amazing life you would have had.

So the question continues unanswered: Why DO bad things happen to good people?

Robert Ringer

Robert Ringer is an American icon whose unique insights into life have helped millions of readers worldwide. He is also the author of two New York Times #1 bestselling books, both of which have been listed by The New York Times among the 15 best-selling motivational books of all time.