11/05/2026
Went hiking last Tuesday to decompress between the semester ending and the summer job beginning. I just wanted to disappear into birdsong and stillness for a while.
Driving back home, I randomly noticed how my house — almost 10 houses down from where I was — lined up perfectly with the road, straight through to where our cycles were parked. Strange thing to notice after driving that road for 2 years. In a split second, a whole bundle of thoughts passed through me — how someone could just drive straight from the street right into that spot, how much I loved the view from my room’s window, the tree line by the road and all. Then I went home and slept.
Two hours later, we woke up to a loud crash. A car driving at 45mph (70kph) had rammed just inches away from our bed straight into our house — exactly along that same line I had noticed earlier. Into our kitchen. Into our neighbors’ living room.
But guess what? No one was hurt. The driver stayed, helped, apologized, and looked genuinely shaken. Our landlord moved us and the dogs into a hotel that night, and kept Misty at his place. By the next day we were in a new apartment, carrying our lives from one place to another with the help of some good people — including the guy who found a new parking spot for his Tesla in our kitchen lol.
How bigger and better technology can sometimes give people a false sense of security and a dangerous sense of detachment from the real environment around them is probably a debate (or lawsuit) for another time lol.
The whole thing still feels unreal. But more than anything, it reminded me how human beings briefly come together in moments of chaos, carrying different roles in each other’s lives before continuing on their separate journeys. Sometimes as the oppressor, other times as the oppressed. But really, any one of us could become either, depending on the role we are made to play for a moment in someone else’s story.
Maybe the world would be a gentler place if we truly understood that we are all here to help each other experience both the good and the bad, unlearn what no longer serves us, relearn what helps us grow, and quietly leave each other changed.
Ps: the new apartment kicks ass lol.
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