| I go to the nearby gym nowadays and go to the slightly far away one on weekends. That gym is newer so has newer machines, but there are too many people and I always have trouble finding parking.
I went there yesterday being Sunday, autopilot kicked in and I ended up on the route to that gym before I could react today as well. Oh well, what is the big deal right. I plod on signal after signal, lost listening to Willpower book. I notice a bus in front of me and groan, I don't like to change lanes, it means getting out of autopilot mode. I watch my rear view mirror and notice a silver sedan coming faster than allowed speed on the left lane, and I decide to take it slow and wait before passing. But the guy behind me couldn't seem to want to wait. He sped and he moved into the left lane. Right into the speeding silver car. I watched my rear view mirror in disbelief as I saw a crash happen right in front of me.. Err in my rear view mirror. In that split second I wished I could somehow tell that guy to stop. Honk or something.
Then I was scared of the cars bumping into me, my precious Mia. I was just in front on the right lane. Both the cars passed me thank almighty without touching me on the left lane. I think the car that moved into the left lane was in front while the car that got hit was behind. I stopped for a second and I then I didn't want to stop. I inched forward crossed the bus that was stopped on my lane, moved in front of the car that had just moved into the left lane, noticed the person on the passenger seat clutching her head on her hands. And I drove on.
My heart was beating fast. It was sheer luck nothing hit me. What if this guy had decided to move back to the right lane or something. Shudder. At the gym I wondered if this might have happened if I didn't come to this gym at all, and went to the other gym. The guy who hit would have been in my spot and may be could have avoided this altogether?
What made me decide to go there? The parking was terrible, more so it being a Monday, cars parked precariously in the middle of the roads and not in designated parking spots.
I cannot stop wondering if I caused the accident somehow. A small tiny change in my routine. A fluttering butterfly changing the weather.
And then I wonder how many fatal accidents I have escaped because I didn't go to the gym. Ah now I don't feel so bad about skipping gym ;--p
PS: no physical injury to those involved. Emotional shock ... May be. Only car exteriors were damaged. |
So glad you are safe. However, even if you would have gone to the other gym if that person were to meet with an accident, they would have somehow. I belong to the section of people that think "If it is meant to happen, it will". Even if you are at home and you are destined to get hurt, you will, and even if you are in a car accident and you are destined to be safe, you will miraculously not get hurt. You are destined to be safe and I'm glad you are.