Post by mullerations on Mar 16, 2005 19:39:07 GMT -5
this is a testimony that i found on a car website
forum...
I'll be honest off the but, I don't have much reason to write you; but I wanted to share how happy I am to know that there are other people out in this world who have beliefs and hobbies that mimic my own. I have been part of Team GMCI in Illinois for almost a year now, and of course us being a part of the R-Generation DVD, I found out about Holy Rollerz on that; and I have to say that it takes a lot of courage to do what you guys do and I deeply respect that. I hoped I might share my story with you shortly and maybe you'll understand what I meant by my first statement.
My Civic was my life for over 3 years. Making it look better, making it go faster. If I could beat that guy next to me off the stoplight, I would. I was stupid, I was young. For a while I flaunted my bad driving record and my countless tickets just out of being dumb. You're 19, you brag about whatever you can...good or bad sometimes. It didn't take me long to see how bad this was. In October of 2003 I met someone who changed my whole perspective on things, and as of November 1st we became a couple and of course I fell in love with her. Lindsey showed so much about life without even saying a word...how beautiful it is, and how fragile it is. Even before then, I had started to clean up my habits, slow down, and be a lot more respective of others. In fact, for over the past 14 months, I think I've only had like 2 tickets out of the almost 30 I've racked up since being 16 (I'm now almost 22). Well on March 11th, 2004, everything I knew changed. While going to Old Navy to buy a workout outfit with Lindsey, a 17 year old in a Taurus tries to make it through a green light making her left turn before I get to the intersection, and I end up T-boning her at almost 60 mph. Her 15 year old brother died 35 minutes later; she was in the hospital for over a week, I broke my collar bone and was out the next day, and Lindsey suffered severe brain trauma and died on March 14th at 2:26am at Loyola University Hospital in Chicago. I have not been the same since. I had been trying so hard to reaffirm my faith in Christ, and then this happened. After the initial shock wore off, I realized that God must have had a different plan for the two of us, and that there had to be a reason I lived through this. It's been hard to walk this path because after losing the most important person in my life and losing my time and investment for 3 years, because of the car and it's modifications, there have been countless articles written about me blaming me for the , persecuting me, and bringing my horrible record into the light.
I truly believe that without God in my life, I would not be here right now. I would have given up hope long ago. It truly takes courage to stand up amongst all kinds of adversity and believe and live in faith. My whole world crumbled around me, but I am here today and I am still loving cars and loving driving, but more importantly, I have a new respect for life and a new motivation to be a safer driver. Your club is a great example of people with the same beliefs and I just wanted you to know I respect that. I wish you success in your future endeavors as a leader of a great group, and I'll keep you in my prayers.
I do have pictures up of my old Civic and pictures from the on my site if you'd like to see them...I've been keeping anything personal off my site because of the vultures at the newpapers so stuff about my Civic is all you'll find there.
www.sfn-racing.com/mwcivic/index.html
forum...
I'll be honest off the but, I don't have much reason to write you; but I wanted to share how happy I am to know that there are other people out in this world who have beliefs and hobbies that mimic my own. I have been part of Team GMCI in Illinois for almost a year now, and of course us being a part of the R-Generation DVD, I found out about Holy Rollerz on that; and I have to say that it takes a lot of courage to do what you guys do and I deeply respect that. I hoped I might share my story with you shortly and maybe you'll understand what I meant by my first statement.
My Civic was my life for over 3 years. Making it look better, making it go faster. If I could beat that guy next to me off the stoplight, I would. I was stupid, I was young. For a while I flaunted my bad driving record and my countless tickets just out of being dumb. You're 19, you brag about whatever you can...good or bad sometimes. It didn't take me long to see how bad this was. In October of 2003 I met someone who changed my whole perspective on things, and as of November 1st we became a couple and of course I fell in love with her. Lindsey showed so much about life without even saying a word...how beautiful it is, and how fragile it is. Even before then, I had started to clean up my habits, slow down, and be a lot more respective of others. In fact, for over the past 14 months, I think I've only had like 2 tickets out of the almost 30 I've racked up since being 16 (I'm now almost 22). Well on March 11th, 2004, everything I knew changed. While going to Old Navy to buy a workout outfit with Lindsey, a 17 year old in a Taurus tries to make it through a green light making her left turn before I get to the intersection, and I end up T-boning her at almost 60 mph. Her 15 year old brother died 35 minutes later; she was in the hospital for over a week, I broke my collar bone and was out the next day, and Lindsey suffered severe brain trauma and died on March 14th at 2:26am at Loyola University Hospital in Chicago. I have not been the same since. I had been trying so hard to reaffirm my faith in Christ, and then this happened. After the initial shock wore off, I realized that God must have had a different plan for the two of us, and that there had to be a reason I lived through this. It's been hard to walk this path because after losing the most important person in my life and losing my time and investment for 3 years, because of the car and it's modifications, there have been countless articles written about me blaming me for the , persecuting me, and bringing my horrible record into the light.
I truly believe that without God in my life, I would not be here right now. I would have given up hope long ago. It truly takes courage to stand up amongst all kinds of adversity and believe and live in faith. My whole world crumbled around me, but I am here today and I am still loving cars and loving driving, but more importantly, I have a new respect for life and a new motivation to be a safer driver. Your club is a great example of people with the same beliefs and I just wanted you to know I respect that. I wish you success in your future endeavors as a leader of a great group, and I'll keep you in my prayers.
I do have pictures up of my old Civic and pictures from the on my site if you'd like to see them...I've been keeping anything personal off my site because of the vultures at the newpapers so stuff about my Civic is all you'll find there.
www.sfn-racing.com/mwcivic/index.html