My Near Death Experience

I had a near death experience last weekend.

Or at least as near as I care to get to one.

I was on my way to a birthday party to work my balloon magic. I had just looked away for about a second or two, and when I looked up front …

…it was too late. I slammed the brakes, but I was engulfed in total darkness. When I realized what was going on, my face was covered in the white fabric of the airbag. I had rear ended someone.

I called my friend Noor, who was with another Jesse, and they had just ordered their drinks. He told me where he was and invited me to join him before I can tell him what was going on. When he found out what was going on, he immediately left to meet me at the scene of the accident across town. Luckily no one was hurt. No ambulances called in or anything. A policeman just happened to be coming out of the gas station across the street, and someone flagged him down. My car and another car was towed out of the street and onto the gas station parking lot. The third car was drivable. The driver of the third car had come out screaming “oh my neck” but dropped the act when he realized that the other person and I were doing well and ours were the cars that took most of the damage, his was barely bruised.

When the police officer got done with his investigation and writing the report, he handed me my papers (driver’s license and insurance card) back and told me that I was lucky that the accident had happened just outside the city limits, so he could not issue me a citation. It was out of his jurisdiction. I counted my blessings all the way home on my ride with my friend Noor, while the tow truck followed us with the wrecked frame of my car.

When I woke up the next morning with hardly any aches or pain, I knew I had experienced a miracle the night before. I have always preached and believed that whatever happens in our life, not only happens for a reason, but the reason is ALWAYS for our best interest, whether we realize it or not, whether we believe it or not, it’s all irrelevant. I was not only grateful, I also realized that I have unfinished business in this life that I need to take care of.

They say that when you have a near death experience, your whole perspective on life changes. Well, I don’t know if my auto accident exactly qualifies as that sort of near death experience, but I can tell you one thing for sure. My perspective on life has changed. I can’t exactly tell you how, or what has changed, but I am a different person because of  it.

No, I don’t have any plans of writing an e-book or any other kind of books about my near death experience, but I am stepping up my efforts on finishing and getting published the business e-book I have been working on. It is based on my twenty years of experience of starting several profitable small businesses that anyone can duplicate with very little money and some determination to change their lives.

I will be posting about it in upcoming posts. Speaking of upcoming posts, that’s another thing that I have made a commitment to change, the frequency with which I have been posting, or rather lack of it. I will be posting regularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays with a weekly update post on weekends. This is a commitment that I am making to myself and to you, my loyal readers.

Another thing that I have ignored for a while, that I will be dedicating some time to in the coming week or two, is to update the design of this blog so that it is more in tune with the business model I have in mind to build around this blog.

Until then, I just want to let you know how grateful I am to you, my loyal readers, who have stuck around with me through thick and thin. I am humbled by your love.