Nearly a decade ago, I was a member of an Abraham
Hicks’ Law of Attraction Meetup group. Its
function was to read and learn from various reading materials and tapes what we
specifically have been doing to either attract or repel certain types of people
and also certain outcomes in our lives.
In addition,
we were supposed to analyze and speculate what the Universe was telling us in a
wide variety of situations. Well, that
is primarily what has been wandering through my mind most of Friday, January 25
and beyond.
It happened
around 4:50, and I was driving to work that morning on Interstate 270
northbound in northwest St. Louis County approaching the Interstate 70 west
exit. From that point, so much happened
so quickly in the next several seconds that I’m not even certain of the exact
order of the occurrences. But this is
what I’ll always remember.
First, there
was a very sudden slowdown in the dark from roughly 55 mph to a total stop in
both the westbound and eastbound I-70 exit lanes.
I
immediately noticed a wrecked vehicle with a small amount of debris just 10-15
feet in front of me. What looked like a
freight train (It was actually an 18-wheel tractor trailer) sped from a few
lanes over to my left to some 50-100 feet in front of me, across both exit
lanes, crashed through the concrete shoulder barrier and down a hill into the
total darkness of the pre-dawn.
It was
tough not to contemplate what might have been for me had I reached that same
stretch of road just three to seven seconds sooner.
Admittedly,
my feelings had been all over the place lately regarding feeling appreciated at
my full-time job, side hustles, near future expenses of my old car, old house with
its monthly payments and its seasoned appliances, the astronomical costs of healthcare,
and generally not keeping up with all the cost of living increases.
There has
been a lot of negativity and disappointment regarding a few aspects of
life. However, this recent experience
has kind of shaken me regarding the essence of life itself.
Perhaps the
Universe was giving me a free wake up call to remind me that my life could have
been entirely snuffed out in the blink of an eye. It also reminded me that in many ways, my
life is far better than most.
Finally, it
made me think that, what do I have to lose in taking more non life-threatening
chances in other areas of life? Borrowing
a line from Yul Brynner, who played Rameses in the 1956 blockbuster movie, The
Ten Commandments, “So it is written; so it shall be done!”
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