Ever wonder if that little thing that blemishes your otherwise perfect day is actually the event that lets you look back on that day?
I've been thinking about this ever since a few days back, when I almost got into an (extremely) unfortunate situation. The story goes like this: I was in my car at a crossroads, the light just turned red. I changed gear to neutral, since the road was pretty flat and took my foot off the brakes. The bass in my car was quite high, so decided to start fiddling around with the settings. I was quite engrossed in it, till I decided to take a quick peek at the traffic lights.
I was extremely disturbed to find out my car was in the middle of the crossroads.
Fortunately for me, the lights had somehow turned from green to red, back to green, in under the space of 10 seconds. Even so, the thought that some random guy going at 100 km/h trying to squeeze through that tight space of time was so disturbing. However, this thought was not the first to come to mind, rather a lot of panic and fumbling to switch gear to D.
My heart was in my throat for at least 5 minutes afterwards. Simultaneously, whatever doubt I had about living for any particular purpose was wiped off the map. Later that night, I recalled the past events of the day. I was eating my lunch and firing off a few emails, at some point my bamboo mat got hungry and decided to eat half of my lunch. Cleaning oil off anything is not fun. But in hindsight, if that didn't happen and therefore 5 minutes of my life hadn't been spent in that otherwise tedious chore, chances are that I would've been at the crossroads earlier->different traffic ratios->same event, different outcome=>me in a mangled piece of car accident.
Have you had any close shaves in your life lately? Look back on them and recall if anything else happened that day that might have tipped the scales against your favour.
|I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.|
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
