Reality Check

Tonight I was driving on the highway to my good friends house. When traffic started to slow down and that “oh good” an accident happened went through your head. Now we are going to be bumper to bumper unwillingly. But this time around my thoughts didn’t go to that. My first thought was just to start praying for what was up ahead. Next thing I knew we were bumper to bumper and just inching along. As fire trucks and police cars went flying by. Knowing now it was an accident up ahead and still not knowing what to expect all I could do was pray, for who. I didn’t know. For what? Not really sure either.
As I got closer I saw tire shreds all over the highway and on the other side in the ditch was a car missing it’s whole side like someone had ripped the whole side paneling off. Surprisingly enough no one was hurt the one car accident with the one person involved was ok. As I kept driving further seeing the accident in my rear view mirror it hit me all of a sudden. For a lack of better words one of those “reality check” moments. Where you realized that could have been you.
And your thoughts start to race,
what was the last thing I said to someone, or the last phone call I made, or the last person I saw.
You start to realize life is to short and even if your 95 it still seems to young to die.
That we still have so much to live for, so much to see and so much to offer to others. And most of all so much love to offer to people. And makes everything else seems so insignificant, like that grudge you have been holding against someone for months or maybe even years. Or that bitterness you hold in your heart towards a “friend” or family members.
You see it from an outsiders perspective and see that life is a one time thing and you can make it as memorable as you want or not. That we choose to love on people unconditionally or not. That in those reality check moments you hold the ability to let it just be something you once thought of. Or you have the ability to let it be something that motivates you to be a better person and you learn from it.
Tonight was definitely one of those moments I will not let pass by, but hold onto it. Realizing who knows what tomorrow will hold….but in the mean time I am going to make the best of it.