Mush Ngoceh

As everybody say… for every dark cloud, there’s a silver lining. This, I feel, includes my little ‘accident’  experience I just had yesterday… Wanna know the story ? Just carry on.

Yesterday, I had to go to my office at Darmaga. At 10 o’clock I had to attend a seminar of one of my friend, as the moderator of the seminar. It finished at 11.0 I stayed in the office till 12.00, had a lunch and then headed back to BS coz I had a meeting there at 14.00. I was riding on my motor, not too speeding, like I used to.
As usual….  the road was crowded with ‘Angkot’s. I had to drive in the middle of the road to be able to get through. Suddenly… out of nowhere (well not nowhere actually … from between two Angkots  few meters in front of me) came a motor speeding (I bet he was doing like a 100 or more) going right at me. When he was just about 10 meters in front of me .. I knew that we would crash each other. But I had no choice.. I was running between two crowded traffic and there’s no way I could step aside. All I could was trying to minimize the impact I was going to face.
And there it was … Baaanggg.. !!!!!
We didnt really crash at each other, but the right-handling on both our motors hit each other really hard. The right rear windows on mine and on his crash and break. Apparently he didnt have much trouble and managed to carry on… But me…
I wasn’t able to control my motor..It goes wild, right and left… and then slammmm ….!!!
My motor falled….I hit the road .. .hard.
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In a frac of seconds, my mind went numb…The world is a slow motion dream…
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Wake up , god damn it !..
I woke up, and the first thing I was thinking about was that wether the car behind me  would crash my motor or me. I looked behind, thank god. The pick-up car stopped right behind my motor. I was lying right in the middle of the road about 5 meters away from my  motor. The cars from the other direction also stopped, not far from me.
I didn’t feel a pain. I walk slowly the side of the road, as everyone around watched. Some men help me and pulled my motor to the roadside. They calm me down. I was calming down, getting a grip of my self. A men asked me: " Are you allright..?? Which is hurt ?"
Hurt ? AAAuuuwwhhh… Suddenly a ripping pain emerged: my right arm, my neck , my knee, my left hand fingers…
I opened my jacket and helmet. There were bruises on my right. There were few others on my left. My legs bleeded. And my knee, oh it hurts. I got limped for a while.
The man who asked me, said : "It’s okay.. we’ll help you". They gave me some medicine, and I layed down.
Anyway… My errands for that day got ruined. I am sure there are poeple who got dissapointed. For that I am sorry.
But as for myself, I felt  very lucky… What, you said ? 
Considering the way I got fallen, the situation, the crowded traffic and the possibilites, I have to say that I was quite lucky that day. I bet some poeple who watched the accident would definitely agreed. It could’ve been a lot worse. Or fatal.

Anyway… as I said early in this blog, we have to be able to take the ‘hikmah’ out of everything that happened to us. Like this accident. At home, that night, I felt that I should be more grateful for the life I STILL have, for every breath I can STILL take, and for every love I can still share. I don’t wanna let everything pass meaninglessly…
And for a special someone who has gotten mad because I didn’t tell her the truth about the accident, I am sorry. I didn’t want to hide anything from you,… but I didn’t want to let you worried.

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