The Meaning of Life Revealed!!
23:34 Mar 09 2010
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The meaning of life. People live their lives, most of them striving for the true meaning of it. You know what I think it is? Experience, plain and simple. Consider everything that happens from the millisecond you come into existence within your mother’s womb. What do you think you’re doing in there, besides developing? You’re experiencing absolutely everything in and around you. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Our lives are chalk-full of them, and they’re there for us to discover who we really are. The real defining moments are of the choices we make and how we choose to react to those experiences.
So in the respects of this epiphany, I had one hell of an experience on a recent Thursday night. Prior to that, I had only been in maybe four vehicle accidents in my life; only one of which (that I can recall), happened within my “adult” life. This one is the first one where I felt completely and irrevocably terrified. Not for me; but for my children. Christy and I are both counting our lucky stars that no one involved was seriously injured; especially the boys. I never thought I’d be so happy about being in pain; but I am and more than a little relieved, truth be told. It leaves me with the impression that maybe, jus maybe; I absorbed and shielded the pain from them in the impact. I may not be able to erase their memory of the whole thing, but I know they’re strong enough to get past this and move on. I have to admit, I’m sort of envious of their courage; not everyone can be that brave… that smart… that resilient. Especially first significant car wreck. FYI: I’m mostly okay as well, so don’t worry too much. On the down side, though, Angelina (the car), didn’t pull through and, once again, we have to go car hunting and surpass another round of the legal processes….yay.
Anyway, we went to go see the car; to clean it out and take the pictures that I was too frazzled to take at the time. I guess the state of shock we were in didn’t allow us to see the full extent of the damage. Yea, “holy crap” doesn’t quite cover it. I’ll never think down about an older car ever ever again; that’s for damn sure. All be it, the car was a ’92 and had quite a bit of work/cash put into it to keep it running, but I can’t help a certain feeling of comfort in the aspect that the car might have absorbed most of the damage.
Will we be getting an older car for our next turn around, or go for something a little more modern? No matter what we find, I’m thinking we’ll be a lot more suspicious about the safety and maintenance records. It’s a shame that hindsight is always 20/20, isn’t it? Too bad we jus so happen to be extremely hard-headed about learning life’s little lessons. And yet again, it all circles back to experience. You learn from your life’s ambitions, mistakes, observing others and all the reactions therein. Life = Experience
At the very least, we’ll walk away from this with our eyes open a little bit wider and we’ll be a little bit wiser for the same.
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