No Longer Living On The Edge
Jason Manning and the dominoes of causality.
The hardest thing in the world for Jason Manning who had suffered so much in the years since the terrible multi-car accident in White Plains in which four of his family members had died. He struggled every day with guilt for having been the only survivor and because he had been tossed free of the car when he was struck by a large federal express truck that suddenly changed lanes. He had survived because of his own negligence when he had taken off his seatbelt just moments before the crash. After the federal express truck had struck his car, it swerved into another lane and struck a school bus with a dozen eight-year-old school children, killing four of them and permanently paralysing the driver.
Jason Manning, unable to deal with the grief from the loss of his family, took to alcohol and amphetamines and he suffered a subsequent accident four months later where he was also paralysed. So much tragedy linked to one pivotal moment, itself set in motion by the FedEx driver who was texting on his telephone. Such would be the nature of this dance of cause-and-effect, of Sturm und Drang, as inevitable and as predictable as dominoes lined in succession, with each individual tile connected invisibly to the others and coming to a fixed conclusion set up in advance.
