In Seconds

For the first time in my life, I felt how a second can mean so much.

On Friday, March 14, 2014, I was on my way back to our work office in Ortigas from a meeting in Pasay. This is a daily thing at work. I visit hotel clients in Manila every single afternoon. I was riding a taxi that day, listening to the radio, looking pass through the window, just about to fall asleep actually. I don't know how it exactly happened, but next thing I know is we hit the car in front of us. Upon gaining my consciousness (not that I really lost it, just sort off), I realized it was actually a row of cars that hit one after the other and we were on the tail end. It was a total of 5 cars. People started looping in. A traffic enforcer checked on me and helped me transfer to another taxi. I decided to head back to Ortigas still so I could let my office know that I'm okay. Then, I went to the hospital. I didn't get hurt or anything like that. I just hit my knees on the front seat. X-ray says everything is okay. No major contusions or any dislocated bones. I was cleared by the doctor on Saturday afternoon.

I still feel really blessed that that's all that happened. I don't know about the rest of the car passengers, but I don't think it was that bad either.

That moment I realized I was in a car accident was a total fear. That moment I realized I wasn't in bad condition at all was relieving. I was alone on my way back to the office from that accident, I had all the time for myself to contemplate on so many things. People I love started flashing to my mind. I even texted some of them. I suddenly had the feeling that I wanted to see all of them right at that very moment, and hug them, and tell them how much I love them. It was a very precious moment, when you realize a lot of things can really happen in a split second. It makes you realize how you should treasure each of those second that would pass by, because you will never know when the last one would tick. I thought it's crazy how things happened too fast in that particular moment we had an accident. It isn't actually. Things really do happen at this fast phase in our everyday lives if we don't treasure them. Let's make the most out of it by showing love and gratitude to the life we were given to live. I do love my life. Though people say you must always be ready to be out of it, it's not an easy letting-go. I love my life, and all the people in it, and all the memories in it, everything! I do.