In an instant .....

Today I was driving back to my office from an appointment. Admittedly, I was looking at my cell phone deciding if I needed to place a phone call or not. In an instant, up ahead, a car started spinning out of control. It was less than 1/4 mile from me and in the next lane over.



It did a 180-spin and then a complete 360-spin on a 4-lane highway. Two or three cars needed to swerve to miss it. It stopped near the median, but partly in the lane I was in. As I was approaching, at a reduced speed, I slowed down to drive around them, but, at the last minute (and there were no cars directly in back of me), I stopped my car, rolled down my window and mouthed, "Are you alright?"

Two adult faces (a mom and dad) and 2 small children looked right at me. The mom, with a shiver in her eyes mouthed back, "Yes, thank you."



I drove on, as there was nothing else I could do. I kept an eye on them (and the road) as they slowly made their way back into a lane of the highway and began driving on to their destination and I to mine.



A mile or so down the road, maybe less, I just started crying.



How quickly life can change. In an instant a family of four could have been gone. In an instant, I could have been gone. It was so fast and so random. I thought of the fact that I didn't go down to my kids' rooms to kiss them good-bye this morning. I thought I should just let them sleep since it was a 2-hour delay and they needed to sleep. Truth be told, I was running late and needed to just get out the door. So stupid and so sad.



So because of today, I'm going to try to remind myself that, in an instant, life can be changed FOREVER and in an instant .... I can tell someone, "I love you!"