Many words have multiple meanings. The word TIP, for instance, could be the extremity of something, or a gratuity for someone who has done you a service, or a bit of practical advice.
The word ACCIDENT has more subtle variations. It can be a car crash; it might mean most any unfortunate, unforeseen incident that occurs unexpectedly, typically resulting in damage or injury; it even has been used euphemistically to refer to an incident of incontinence, as in “uh oh, he’s had an accident.”
But let’s narrow the scope of the word ACCIDENT to this: an event that happens by chance, typically producing undesirable or possibly disastrous results. Like life.
Life is an accident, thrust upon us by natural forces beyond our control, and even beyond the control of the natural forces (aka “parents”) involved. All those little sperms swimming madly along toward the ovum, like athletes at the commencement of a triathlon, and chance may (or may not) favor the one with the longest or most well-formed flagella. All those diverse biological possibilities that come together to form the lives we have, the eyes that may be brown or blue, the gender, the size of our nose or our feet, the ability to perform some acts better than others.
Much of what takes place during our lives is the haphazard result of accident. Sometimes you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and, WHOOPS, too bad for you, buddy. There was a scene in “Two Mules for Sister Sara” where Sara the faux nun comments about how God will look after things. Clint Eastwood’s character contests that analysis. He relates how a bullet may ricochet off a rock, killing one person, not touching the guy next to him. It’s not fate or karma or whatever. “Just an accident,” he tells her. “It’s just an accident.”
The wide receiver drops the pass and fails to score; his team loses by three points; the drop was an accident. A woman dies of breast cancer, a disease she developed by mere chance. A dam bursts, drowning hundreds. It was an accident.
Life is an accident.
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