I rode my FJ to work this morning, but when I was about half-way there, I realized I forgot my wallet at home. So I turned around, returned home and got it. Now I was really pressed for time. On my way back to work, a little further up the road from where I turned around was a VERY bad car crash. It looked like a head-on collision. When I consider the timing of all this, maybe I should have been thankful instead of stressed. It could have been me... and it would have not ended well.
Quote from: Lotsokids on October 21, 2013, 06:57:46 AM
I rode my FJ to work this morning, but when I was about half-way there, I realized I forgot my wallet at home. So I turned around, returned home and got it. Now I was really pressed for time. On my way back to work, a little further up the road from where I turned around was a VERY bad car crash. It looked like a head-on collision. When I consider the timing of all this, maybe I should have been thankful instead of stressed. It could have been me... and it would have not ended well.
That's a good outlook on things. Glad your OK.
George
You could have just as well been the catalyst that prevented the accident. Such is life. Don't look back, live now!
Later.....
There have been many times when I just didn't make a light, fumed a little while waiting about the time I was losing, only to arrive on the scene of an accident a mile or two up the road that had occurred only a few moments earlier. Now I don't complain about the little delays...
Shiny side up.
Very early in my 2 wheel days I had filtered to the front at a red light. Ready to gas it and get out in front when the light turned green. I stalled it and failed to get out first. The moment I stalled it, all I was thinking was, what a rookie, I must look really stupid stalling the launch like that. Then a second or two later a building on 4 wheels (trash truck) was blasting through the space I would have been occupying. Fate or dumb luck? Don't really know, just happy to still be on two wheels enjoying the ride.
If you happen to watch Michio Kaku's/ Morgan Freeman's "Though the Wormhole" on Discovery -maybe a bit obscure stuff, I realize, a couple of years ago, they considered the question "Is there a Sixth Sense?" where they suggested that it may indeed be possible to know of events that have yet to happen. They presented some interesting research to this effect. One of the applications was exactly what is being discussed here, somehow, averting a disaster by some seemingly random, unpredictable action/ thought/ behavior.
Parte 1 Through the Wormhole S02E05 Is There a Sixth Sense (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEfUNzhMShw#ws)
Interesting stuff..
Dan