I Love Life Even More - Now

I Love Life Even More - Now

Wow! What a close call!

I don't know "how many" saved me but I would like to thank God aka Allah & Buddha and the spirits that guided my car untouched amidst the number of cars that were on the road and how wild my car was wheeling out and around. I was totally in the left lane of oncoming traffic and saw a beige with brown striped van and a couple of other cars behind that one.

It all started when I was afraid to be late for the 12:24 pm train in Elburn because traffic was going to be heavy. Right after the intersection of Routh 38, which is also Lincoln Hwy and Peace Road. I wanted to pass one truck from the right lane but the lanes merged too quickly. Afraid that I would be between that truck and the truck infront of it too soon, I attempted to get infront of the other truck too while driving on the remaining part of the merged lane that had turned into the shoulder of the road. In the far distance, I saw the police car in the oncoming lane and attempted to get back into the lane so I swerved quickly into the left and for sure slipped on the gravel shoulder of the road into the oncoming lane in a 90 degree angle with the driver side closer to oncoming traffic.

My life didn't flash before my eyes but images of cars (soft cars) came to mind and sight. And I say soft cars because I just thought at that moment. "Oh my who ever you are help me!" I did turn and completed the 180 degrees happy I was back on the otherside safely. For sure the trucks on those lanes and behind me stopped becaue they had seen everything. The next thing I was trying to do was to avoid the ditch because I had spun around back to the shoulder. And needless to say, I didn't (we actually being my car and I) stayed on the shoulder. I then thought. Wow, great, here comes the truck driver (2nd one I passed up, 1st one in line) and he yelled at me. He said "What do you think you're doing, you wanna get everyone killed?" I looked at him with tears in my eyes and said "sorry...I didn't want to be late for work." He said, "you know what, we all don't want to be late for work but it's not worth it." He was right. Something my mom always told me was to be patient.

Then the police officer I had initially seen that excited me to get into the lane made a U-turn. He had someone in the back of his seat. He was the one I saw in the distance that freaked me out. He radio-ed for another officer to come. I saw another man walking in the distance. He walked around my car seemingly checking around my entire vehicle amazed!

He saw me crying and asked me to roll down the window. I did, starting to cry. He asked, "are you okay?" Obviously he saw that I was not. He said, "Hey, do you believe in God?" I said, "yes" realizing this is the first time I confirmed it. He said, "okay then, this was just a wake up call, that's it, you're fine." I finally believed. His name was Travis. He asked me to come out because I was shaking and I sat on the grass ditch looking out to the sky where the sun was shining through. I put my hands together clasped and thanked the Heavens. Crying hysterically, unable to fathom how I made it through and what could have just happened. Officer Stokes came around and tried to calm me. The truck drivers were saying in the distance to give her a break and that she was just trying to get to work, the lanes merged quickly and we're glad she's okay. They said, "we see this all the time, cars thinking they can beat trucks and trains. She's lucky. The officers asked if I would like go sit in the police car to calm down and I screamed, "Noooo!" I did not want to sit where criminals sat, so he asked if I needed an ambulance, I screamed again "Noooo!", he said do you want me to take you to a hospital to talk to a mental expert and I screamed. Then I collected myself when Travis said, she's fine. So I followed the officer to the station to just sit it out and he made Chai tea for me and I realized, it's not worth it anymore to race with time.

I cried and thanked all that helped and apologized to the truck drivers I had passed up. They said "we're just happy you're alive." Believe me, so was I.

Thank God! {Allah, Buddha, The Heavens} I Love You!

My new mission in my life is to just be Kind!

Posted: 11:25 p.m. EST February 11, 2006 by Anne Meesriyong