I have know this for some time in my choosen career that it happens in three's.  Just recently in my field we have had two of the three.  The first was in an accident that claimed the life of the instructor and luckily for the student he did get away with his life.  The second was at night and all walked away.  It seems that it just gets closer to home the more "senior" I get in life, as a younger man you heard of it happening in three's, but usually it was aviation wide.  Meaning you would hear of an accident, and some other place in (for example) Army aviation you would hear of a second then a third.  So it's not the fact that it doe's happen in three's its the fact that two have happened so close to home.  Yet I go to work ever day and do the thing I do.  But what I question is "Does it really happen in three's across the board of life"?  Three teeth that have a cavity, three tickets for speeding, three arquements with a loved one?  Or could it be just a natural occurence and we have selected to categorize them in three's?  There is nothing that will bring one's life back into perspective when someone you know or work with or know of, has lost their life in doing something that you have in common with them, a job a hobby.  I have no idea what others thought when the first accident occured and the instructor was doing what he did every day, but I will tell you this it hit home to me.  Could that be because I am no longer young and ivincible, or I am just smart enough to realize that if it could happen to him it could happen to anyone in our line of business.  I kind of liked it when I was just young and invincible. So we go do the things we do everyday, what else are we to do.  Have our jobs become what makes us who we are, or can we put the job down and be who we truely are?  Well can you get paid to be an A_ _ Hole? Someone once told me that "all" pilots are the same.  WOW, so what they were really saying was.."I was just like all the rest in this field."  I use to think it was the fact that it was something  that I loved to do and enjoy, and the wonderful feeling I have when I am flying, but it is who I am.             So Lets get back to the THREE's.  Could they apply to life and the good things that may occur?  Three pay raises?  Three days off (paid days off)?  Three wonderful days with your young child?  Thee wild and romantic nights with a loved one..or someone, someone else loves? Three free Big-Mac's?  How about in deaths of people in the news...did we just not have three.  I know its more than that but maybe 3 occured and it started over again.  I came off a Horse the other day, and started the three at where I was riding.  Funny how you hear of the first or the second..and you hold your breath that you do not become the third.  Why Three's?  How come it can not be 200 or 10,000.  Would the odds not be in ones favor if we said it all happened in the millions?  Well again I have went on about myself but whom better to talk about ME than ME!! And what better format than this place..not many read these things..and well i can just go on BLA BLA BLA..and i have removed things out of the way that at some point in time could just get into the way.