Just
reflecting on some things that have happened in my life. I am blessed to even
be alive, free, educated, and employed. Something has always been there to
kinda I guess stop me from falling flat on my face. Seriously. I remember being
home alone making toast one time, I was like in elementary school, and trying to
dig in the toaster with completely silver knife in order to spread some butter
on the toast. The toaster was on and red hot. I remember the sparks shooting
off of the tip of the knife. Honestly, I believe under normal circumstances I
should have been electrocuted. Yet, I wasn't. I remember almost drowning in the
back yard as a child and my older brother jumping in after me just in the nick
of time. I remember having a massive headache. I was to young to even know what "dosage" was, hell I couldn't even read that word. All I knew was that you took
these little pills to get rid of the pain. I popped like 3 or 4 of them. Not sure
how safe that was, but as a grown man I realize how bad that could have turned out. Ummm yeah my
brushes with certain death or serious injury have all been prevented. I am not
invincible, nor do I have special powers. I am just blessed. That is the
conclusion that I have come to. I remember my first year in high school.
These five seniors, ok they was some big dudes, pulled me into a corner in the
courtyard. One of them gave me a brown bag and wanted me to walk it across the
yard and give it to somebody. He didn't exactly ask either. What was in the
bag? I have no idea. I was scared, but I thought to myself, walk this across
the yard or get beat down. I took one step with the bag and one of the dudes
said. " Nah yo he a young bol." He took the pack out my hand and told
me to just leave. Don't know what made him step up and say something, but i'm
glad he did. Once again I was saved. I just thank God for getting me this far.
Fall of 2009 trying to finish the last semester of school. Student
teaching and loving it. One weekend I was headed to da metro wit my boy. Slick
road and rainy conditions. Traffic was thick and we were at a complete stand
still. As we sat still holding a conversation, my boy looks in the rear view and
says " Oh Shit!". I tried to turn to see what he was looking at. Next thing I know
my face is slamming against the dashboard. We just got smashed by another car.
That car had to be doing bout 50mph. It caused 3 cars to be totaled. Anything
could have happened to me as a result. Once again here I am.
Sorry not strong enough to keep writing this right now. To be continued......
Peace, love, and joy to you all
(Original Post Date November 27th 2011)
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