I get shivers down my spine when I think how quickly life can change: in a blink of an eye, a millisecond. It boggles me that 0.1 seconds can change the lives of so many people, no warning, no preparation! No matter how much we all plan and think we’re in control, we’re not! Fact.
Imagine getting that dreaded call to say your husband’s been in a big car accident by the police? Unimaginable, right? Well that’s where I’m at. I got the dreaded call as my hubby was too dazed and out of it to talk in a coherent way. If my heart could have fallen out my body, it did! It is as if my brain stopped, and I flew into autopilot, numb, frozen and in action mode. I totally felt out of my body, with the worst thoughts going through my head. What was I going to see when I got there? What was his status? What if this, what if that? My mind blurred and slurred!
Now take someone who has a ginormous fear of police, all things medical and again, freezes and doesn’t cope! Yep, me again! So add the two scenarios! Life in that moment was surreal, shattered and fragmented into shards of my thinking combined with illogical reasoning and overwhelm – recipe for disaster and panic.
Long story short, after being taken to a specialist hospital for neck and spine injuries, he was spared another chance! With a written off car, poles bent, tyres flying off and the whole shebang, he walked away (very bruised and sore) – with a ruptured finger! Someone was watching over him, and over us as a family!
No pity required, but I feel it was such a huge awakening! I saw the hand of a higher power so vividly. Against all odds and what went on at the scene, the driver of the car shouldn’t be here to tell the tale. It just sucks that sometimes people need such big bashes and crashes and disaster right in front of our very eyes to be reminded how fragile life is! Why when things are all hunky dory do we just take life for granted and do not appreciate day by day?
Life is so precious. Family and friends are everything. Life is about relationships. Intangible feelings and connections. Deeper links. Life is about caring for one another, for looking out for people’s needs and offering a helping hand. It’s not about the material things. Often we feel we’ve made it when we strive and achieve all superficially.
The foundation of happiness needs to be built on something eternal. Superficial material things can go as quickly as they come. REAL happiness needs to be redefined and reviewed. And questioned!
What makes us happy? What is life all about? Can happiness be bought? Or is there something deeper. I know the answer….
October 14, 2020