Moments that make you take a step back

[grandpa_spec_F6]

This may sound strange, but I like the cemetery.

Wide open spaces, green grass and complete peace and quiet from the otherwise hectic outside would, a place to contemplate life.

Yesterday afternoon I was at the cemetery with the other half visiting some of the now departed family, and while there we decided to pay our respects to someone else we knew of who recently passed away.

While walking amongst the plots, with all the little memorial bits and pieces placed around them, I was stopped in my tracks by a fresh burial plot, not because of who it was, but what was on it.

Among the flowers was a single red P-Plate, broken at the top with a zippy tie through the hole, for some reason this left me standing there like a stunned mullet.

As I've only been off my P-Plates for 6 months, I began to think about how many times I'd done something stupid and nearly lost it, past and present bad driving habits, what I've seen mates do and how indestructible we all think we are... something about that single red P on a grave hit me harder than any road safety campaign I've seen, or talking to from Mr Plod I've had.

Now it's over to you all, what moments have made you take a step back?

GSAU