Is It Worth the Pain?

Texting is the new phenomenon; there's no denying that. Most teenagers use texting everyday and some even use it all day. There are also those people who use texting while they are trying to drive. Most of those people would say that they are able to multi-task without harming other people because they are pros at it; the truth is, no one is ever going to be able to be akilled enought at texting while driving to not put themselves and others in harm's way. I am guilty of this dangerous act. Recently, however I was nearly the cause of an accident because I felt the need to reply to a text as soon as I received it.


As I was driving home from my friend's house one night I received a text message from a friend. Without even thinking, I reached for my plone to read it. As I looked up from my phone, I saw how I had drifted towards the ditch on the side of the road where a person was walking. If I had not looked up at that very moment I could have driven straight into the ditch or worse, hit the pedestrian walking along the side of the road. The rest of the drive home my phone stayed in my purse in the passenger seat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDLCmStIw9E&feature=related

The link above is to PSA about texting while driving. In the video, a group of teenage girls are texting a boy that one of the girls has a crush on. The girls' fun time is soon interrupted by the deadly crash. Throughout all the banging of heads on windows and shipping of the bodies, the girl who was driving and had the phone was the only one to live from her car. The innocent drivers of the other vehicles lost their lives because of this text. Achild is left with no parents and a parent has lost a child. The girl must now live with the image of her deceased friends and the guilt of robbing someone of their life for as long as she lives.

From all this we must ask ourselves; is replying to a message so important you'd risk your life for it? Is it worth putting other people's lives in danger?

Video Source: "PSA Texting while Driving U.K. Ad [HD]." Web. 27 September 2010.