cheating death
My parents' recollection of how vulnerable I was as a baby never fail to amuse me. :)In my entire life, I will probably never be able to fully appreciate how much my parents would actually go through for me. The way they panicked when they saw my face turning blue, the times they worry when my fever never went down, the way I had diarrhoea non-stop... All these occured to my when I was a teeny-weeny baby. Of course, looking at me now, one could never imagine me as a fragile kid. But I guess, in a way, I'm thankful to be alive today.
Even as I grew up, I could distinctly remember the times that I cheated death. When I was much younger, I remembered once while going up an escalator, I stuck my head out and looked below, wanting to say hi to my uncle. Before I could do that, I felt something hit my head from above. I instantly retracted my head and wanted to scold the person whom I thought had hit me for no good reason. Then, right before my eyes, the adjacent escalator loomed past me. That's when I realised it was the "triangle" thing that they used to put below the escalators that hit me. It was to prevent silly people who put their heads out from being chopped off. Yeah, even though I was only around 7 or 8 years old, it had stuck in my mind till now because I remembered thinking to myself, how so very lucky my head was still attached to my neck.
Also want to thank the Lord for keeping me alive despite my reckless driving. Sigh. I really need to stop speeding, especially when I am in a rush. It's better to be late than dead.
posted by solitude @ 9:08 PM
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