What is a split-second? And how can it change reality for you (and everyone else?)

It is Easter Sunday, and we are driving to Wauwatosa to have lunch with members of our family. It is a beautiful, sunny, warm, gentle day. Perfect. We stop at the intersection of 92nd. Street and Hampton Road in Milwaukee. There is a lot of traffic as people are enjoying a beautiful warm, sunny day. Aina says to me; “When the light turns green, don’t go.” The light turns green and suddenly I hear a crash and look up in time to see a silver-colored vehicle smash into a black SUV causing it to fly through the air in front of us landing on its roof. It is surreal. The black SUV flips over onto its side, next to us. That moment is frozen in time. We move through the intersection in shock, shaken by what we have witnessed, and cognizant of how close we have come to death. Yes, just a few feet to the West, and the SUV would have landed on our windshield. We arrive at Wauwatosa and enjoy a wonderful meal and conversation with our family members. But the crash continues to speak to us. It lives with us. It talks to us. It haunts us. And most of all it instructs us as to the incredibly fragile nature of our lives and destiny. Who knows what may be lurking around the corner. And all it took was, a split-second! I wonder how many lives were changed forever. I wonder how close we, and others came to realizing the same fate. And I wonder why? And I wonder why I am so driven to find out. On this, the day after the accident I savor the moment, and the opportunity to write about that which continues to haunt me.