Unlike the prom, this is not part of my job I enjoy.

I've been thinking about this accident ever since I got home and posted the shot. The word that keeps coming to my mind is, alone. The person is surrounded by people, everyone trying to help in one way or another. Everyone is there focused just on that one person, just on that moment. The focus is intense. And yet, I can't help but think that no matter how much is going on around the person on the stretcher, ultimately they are more alone than ever before. The fear and the pain, if they are conscious, must be intense. Worst of all must be the realization that, try as they might to push that thought far away, all of the people there to help may not be able to do anything. Alone. Surrounded by people and yet so completely alone.