Run Lola Run ...

I watched this movie Run Lola Run a couple of months ago. I was amazed and thrilled by this movie and felt how close it is to our lives. Whenever I come across any unfortunate incident, I remember this movie, and think to myself ... what if the clock had stopped ticking for 2 minutes or had ticked 2 minutes faster! This happened recently ... we went camping at a state park in Florida, with a bunch of other friends. We were 6 people all together. We reached there friday evening. Some of us pitched the tent, while the rest took care of fixing dinner. We had carried with us ready to eat stuff. Yummy, delicious food ... it was great! Later we all went into our tent, and played UNO and Cards. It was so much fun. Finally at about 1:00am we thought of going to bed. We said good night to each other, and went to sleep ... each one thinking about the next fun filled day. It was around 2:30am, when some of us heard a car zoom by very close to our tent. It scared some of us, but then we were relaxed as the sound faded away. After about 15 minutes, the car came very close to our tent again. This time, it was as if the car would just run over our tent. Almost everyone got up and sat upright, trying to come to their senses as quickly as possible, to understand what was happening. It seemed to us, as though the car had got caught into a ditch and the driver was trying hard to get it out. One of our friends, opened the window flap of our tent, and lo ... the car was facing us, just about 20 feet away from our tent. The car had a broken windshield. The driver had got out of the car trying to lift it from the rear end. Some of us came out of the tent, and asked him, if he required any help. May be the driver had not noticed us coming out of the tent, and looked somewhat startled, when he saw us. He quickly got into his car, and with all the energy, got his car out of the ditch, backed his car, and zoomed away insanely. While getting out his car from the ditch, it hit our car ... just a minor scratch on the bumper, which we saw after he had left. One lady from our neighboring campsite had been the witness to all this event. They called the cops, and the cops asked her and some of our friends all that had happened. They jotted down the description of the car, and the driver. 30 minutes later, another cop came, with the details about the driver. The cop said that the driver was arrested. Apparently, the driver was a hit and run case. He was in his teens, returning from the friday late night party, when he ran over a pedestrian. He had tried to escape from the scene, and had landed into the state park instead. He had hit a couple of picnic tables, after which he had finally landed into our campsite. What an unfortunate event this was ... when I think of the person who lost his life ... what if he had not been crossing that road that night? Thinking of the driver ... what if he started driving 2 minutes earlier or 2 minutes later? Who knows whats in store for all of us ... but after something like this happens ... then come questions like ... what if?