Everyone knows this.
But when such an instant happens
even if you just happen to witness an instant happen to someone you don't even know
it stops you in your tracks. Today I was stopped in my tracks.
And your heart goes out.
Because we will all have instances. Moments you can do nothing about, but are on the road of,
but you don't know it, nor can you alter the course of it.
An instant was all it took.
I just so happened to cast my eyes to my driver side door mirror
and saw the whole instant happen.
Then I heard my instant fear confirmed.
Then it got worse.
Which made me pull the car over and run back knowing I can't do anything, but I was just as stopped
as the poor innocent guy lying face down, not moving in the middle of the road.
Everything was moving along as normal as ever. Everyone going about their Thursday, pre-long weekend business
in the warm 5:30 pm sunshine.
The guy on the motorcycle who had just passed me was humming along perfectly, I don't know why I even cast my eyes down to my driver side mirror, but there he was simply continuing on
then I saw the full side length of a black car suddenly in front of him
but because of the distance I couldn't tell if the car was 5 feet in front of him, or 25 feet in front of him, or if the car had just jutted out of a street without looking, or if it was parked and just did a u-turn to go in the opposite direction.
But we all heard the guy on the motorcycle hit the brakes.
Then hit the car.
He, and bike parts, and glass, and everything was air bound.
Then he landed sprawled face down on the road.
Then the bike landed on him.
Gas leaked everywhere.
Everyone.
All of us who were going about our business stopped as instantly as he did.
Everything just stopped.
That instant was felt and shared and attended to by everyone there.
How could one not?
Poor guy.
It wasn't his fault.
It was particularly bad.
Motorcycle accidents generally are bad.
But this was genuinely bad.
I know this happens everyday, but there was just something about that instant.
I hope he will be okay.
But some instances are indefinite.
