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Be Not Afraid Accidentsexplanation that comes our way. And it will come.There’s always somebody with a solution, a perfectpreventative measure, or an “obvious” lesson on the tipof their tongue. But discovering the deeper meaning ofan accident – if it even exists – is much harder. Perhapsthat’s why Dan, a forty-year-old who survived a deadlyfall, feels that in the aftermath of an accident, it is lessimportant to find answers for it than to contemplatethe questions it raises:I was going to Cornell at the time, and one night a bunchof us were walking home from a rock concert on campus.We’d taken a familiar shortcut, but we were stoned andonly vaguely aware of just how close it ran along theedge of a deep gorge.Friends tell me that I was there one second and gonethe next. They were certain I was dead. Some of themmade their way down to the roaring falls below andsearched among the rocks for my body. One went to callthe police, and another remained on the path where I’ddisappeared. I myself remember nothing at all, exceptthat when I woke up I was lying on my back lookingup at a sky full of stars. I yelled for help twice, and thesecond time I was answered by a voice about twenty feetabove me. It was one of my friends, and he raced off toget help. Soon he was back with a student who was a86