I do this every day and every day I miss the green light and sit for the longest minute waiting to cross Sunset blvd.
This is the minute I turn around to scratch Jesper’s head and we both giggle.
I get closer to Sunset and thinking; I guess I will make it today after all and I continue driving.
The sun is rising from east; it’s beautifully crisp after the rain last night. I had that feeling again. The next thing I know there is a car right in front of me running the red light going east on sunset.
I slam the brakes and my car spins around. He keeps going.
I turn my head watching the car and internally cursing WTF!! He is then a few inches away from hitting an older woman walking across sunset from the north side. She is startled. It’s quiet. My heart is beating so fast. Other cars begin honking the horn.
But this morning, as I pull the car over to go into the back seat and kiss my son and say out loud THANK YOU, I couldn’t help myself from thinking what could have happened. What if I didn’t slow down the car?
What if the pedestrian left her house two seconds earlier.
This morning could have…turned out a lot different for the woman, the driver, my son and I. But the day goes on and my heart got yet again cracked open and my mind reminded how precious life is and how many people aren’t so lucky as we were this morning.
Was he drunk, texting, being blinded by the sun or simply not paying attention? No matter what, he wasn’t present and definitely not mindful.
I can only wish this was his wakeup call. How close he was possibly destroying peoples and his own life.
Love Camilla
1 comment:
My gosh Camilla, so glad you are both ok, and that you, being the yogi use it for such beautiful reflection.
In love,
Tara
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