Loss of control

I got into a car accident on Friday morning. I was driving on the 10, and as most of you know, it's quite a dangerous highway in the winter. I hit a patch of black ice, wind and snow everywhere, and completely lost control of my car. Drove off the road and barrelled over twice in the ditch. I've never been so scared in all my life.

Amazingly, I'm completely okay. Not a scratch, not even any aches. When my car finally stopped moving, I was upside down and I had to be pulled out of the car from the passenger side. Two angels stopped their cars and ran down to mine to see if I was okay. They pryed the passenger door open and got me out into the snow. The woman was wearing a fur coat to her ankles and was standing in 3 feet of snow. She hugged me and I was crying.

Then all the other people came, the transports Québec guy, the ambulance guys, the SQ, the tow truck guy. And the whole time, I couldn't speak without crying. Even when the paramedics took me into the ambulance to take my vital signs and I thought of Grey's Anatomy, I had tears in my eyes as I was making jokes and trying to be charming...(what? They were cute!!).

Needless to say I've been thinking about this event all weekend. It kind of puts things in perspective. Life can be over in a second. Or completely changed in a second. We can't control anything that happens to us, even if we think we can. All we can do is try to do the best we can.