Here is an incredibly inspiring story I just translated for Hidabroot TV channel. I had tears in my eyes while working on it. An Impossible Reconciliation At first I did not believe my own eyes. Afterwards, the terrifying sight disappeared on its own, and for a moment I thought that I must have been hallucinating. Out of instinct I hit the brakes and I stopped in a not-so-sharp screech because anyway I was turning after I’d stopped, and I was driving slowly. I was not capable of getting out to check whether what I saw was true or not. But pedestrians in the area who were walking around normally, suddenly started to rush over to the car; and some stopped, immobilized in their tracks – all this started to signal to my common sense, which was still functioning, that something was truly not right. Nevertheless I was unable to move my hand to leave the car and see what happened. The picture began to emerge to me, though I did not make a move to confirm the truth. “He is in shock,” I heard someone say near my ear, someone who walked near my open [car] window and peeked inside. The crowd around the car began to increase, a motorcycle with a flasher seemed to appear out of nowhere with a siren. Its driver got out, wearing a vest that identified him as belonging to one of the rescue units. “Why a rescue unit?” the thought passed through my mind, my eyes fluttered. “Was I wounded?” I didn’t feel a thing and a small voice told me this wasn’t about me, that I was not involved in the uproar taking place in front of my eyes. An ambulance appeared behind me, flashing in the left mirror; it slowed down when it came upon the crowd just past the bend. The crowd swelled from one moment to the next, as if someone had announced that a surprise performance was to take place. The ambulance was about to park, and I already heard sirens from every direction. That strange intersection had a very sharp right turn, which seemed entirely like the mistake of some drunken road engineer. Anyway, it began to fill up with all kinds of vehicles; I managed to see a fire brigade and police before I felt someone pulling me down. My open eyes, closed – even though I tried to keep them open. Some unexplained heaviness attacked my limbs and the world faded away from my eyes and ears. A thick, silent and welcome darkness enveloped me.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:17:16 +0000
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