OHH DEAR (LITERALLY)…SLOW DOWN
6:35am: I’m leaving to take my son to school, and it’s pitch dark outside. I’m normally rushing out the door, speeding out the driveway like a bat out of…ummmm yeah.
But today I wasn’t rushing. I wasn’t speeding down the street, I wasn’t messing with my phone or leaning in the backseat to put a movie on for my son during the ride. I was just as D’Angelo would say…#Cruisin.
Or better yet, as Juve would say…going real “Slow Motion Wit It” (the PG version of course HA).
When I plugged my phone in, a podcast of a sermon I was listening to entitled “This Is Significant” popped up immediately. It put me in a state of sheer calm and peace. I was just cruisin’ & coastin’, going no more than 20-30 mph.
I had just made a left turn out of my neighborhood, and didn’t make it 1 block past my house before I saw a bright reflection of light to the right of me.
2 eyes to be exact!
That entire road I was driving on has a guardrail for 2 miles except, for one little patch about 4-5 ft wide. And that’s where I made eye contact with…
THE DEER!!!
The deer was running in front of me from right to left, and I was the only car on the road. Then it happened.
A sound you never want to hear while driving in your car…especially after making eye contact with a dear…
“BAAAAAAAAAM!”
In my mind I was like “C’mon’ Man!!!” It was a real “Damn Damn Dammmmn” Florida Evans moment.
All I wanted to do was get my son to school.
The deer kept running but I know it was hurt after being hit by my SUV Truck. My SUV should’ve looked a lot worse than it did. Thank God I wasn’t driving my car because it would’ve surely been totaled.
Once the shock wore off of the “no no no no no…damn damn dammmmn” in a split second I quickly thought MY SON! I’ve never been in an accident with my kids in the car. I felt a major emotional breakdown coming on.
As I panicked and turned around to check on him (all of this is happening within a split second, even though in my mind it was happening so slow) …I was immediately about to drop tears of terror.
But guess what? My 9 year old son LAUGHED.
He laughed and was quite entertained by it all. I felt instant relief… it was all ok.
My aha moment from that early morning fiasco…SLOW DOWN.
I was sooooooo relaxed and in my “cruisin mode” that I was prepared and protected in so many ways. If I was in a hurry like I normally am, on my phone, playing with the radio - it could’ve gone really really bad.
I hadn’t slept a full night sleep in months (which I have no problem with because I love the grind). But after that accident and filling out the police report along with the insurance calls…I was exhausted and done.
I went home and took a much needed nap. I laid down at 10am and didn’t get back up until 4pm #KnockedOut.
And guess what? When I woke up everything was ok while I rested. The world didn’t collapse, the boys were fine, my blog and Instagram were still intact. Everything in my life, my business and the world at large was just fine.
Sooooo the message is: SLOW DOWN! Don’t be in such a rush. Time is on your side and everything is going to be A-Okayyy!
