Last night I had a bit of a scary moment occur. I believe that it was intended as a "wake up" call, but I could be wrong. I was involved in a one vehicle, car accident last night. It had been raining all day and night, needless to say, the roads were wet. I was driving along a main road for where the speed limit is quite high, and I misjudged a corner that I had approached. I lost control of my car as it veered onto the wrong side of the road, then I slightly re-gained control again, when the car decided it couldn't be controlled and spinned a couple of times until it went into a ditch full of shrub bushes and I stopped it by applying the handbrake.
Needless to say, I was stunned and I do remember having the thought "don't tell me I'm gonna die on this road?!" Thankfully, I'm still alive to tell the story and I feel like I have learnt a bit of a lesson from it. I'm okay, although I did find it really difficult to sleep last night because I was re-living it and I was stressing about any possible damage that could've occurred to my car. I took it to the mechanic today to get checked and thankfully the most damage that occurred was mainly to the tyres. The mechanic also found a bit of damage to the radiator, but did a pressure test which came up that it didn't have any problems.
As bad as this sounds, I really needed to experience this event. From this one experience alone, I have a greater respect for the road and the weather. I also appreciate my life a lot more, knowing now that my life could've very easily ended late last night. I know this. I know that I was lucky that my car ended up in shrubs, rather than being wrapped around a tree. I'm lucky that it was just a one-car accident, rather than hitting an on-coming car and killing not only myself, but also an innocent by-stander, passing motorist or even a family. I was very lucky to escape knowing that the only way this is going to hurt, is the fact that I will be broke for a while to pay back my mum for buying my new tyres, because I spent $150 on the mechanic and getting my car towed out of the shrubs by a tow truck.
Now, I have already begun to look at things differently. I've even cooked my two meals of the day, today. I'm looking forward to spending time with my mates and I'm looking forward to doing the simple things in life. It really is like I've been given another second chance!
Nothing like living your life like you've just been booted up the ass!! haha
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