a day in life..

has there ever been a day when you have come pretty much face to face with your mortality..? you wake up one morning, go about your day, all the while knowing you are climbing the ‘hill’ to becoming *scream* 50..! yet, on that very day, you do something you have done for years and years.. but by the end of that day, you find yourself fighting for your life. you sit back and think, “how is this possible? “

on the other end of that thought, you are unknowingly on a collision course with someone you have never met before.. a nameless, faceless person.. in an instant, that person will change the very course of your life. they woke up that morning, ate breakfast, got into their car, drove to work, blah, blah, blah.. pretty much the same as what you did.

what makes this day different..? what makes this day the day you come face to face with your mortality..? you make a wrong move, make a bad judgment call, happen to be in the right place at the wrong time..? you, in essence, screw up.

you feel yourself falling, flying, floating.. your thoughts are on your child.. did you talk to them today..? they know you love them, right..? is your dad or mom going to be mad..? how will they react to the news..? you are still falling, flying, floating.. you wonder if it all really happened.. you were sure you could make it..

you finally land.. the ground is hard, the sun is still shining and the noises sounds so odd.. faces appear that you do not know.. you hear people talking but for some reason you cannot understand them.. you close your eyes hoping it is all a dream, a surreal dream, a movie you in which you are surprisingly one of the stars.. when you finally open your eyes again, the walls are white, the light is dim, the low buzzing sounds of machinery enters your ears..

when you are finally fully conscious, the memories of the past days’ events come flooding back into your mind.. something you do every day and have done since you could remember, nearly ended your life.. but what made that day different..? you made a wrong move, a careless move.. it is in that instant, you realize you really are not invincible as you once thought.. unbeknownst to you, a shadowy figure has brought your mortality to the brink.. and decides to wait for another day..