It takes a split second for your life to end.

At the blink of an eye, you can really lose your life.

Driving down 20 today the split second I looked down to peek at my delivery tickets, a car pulled out in front of a semi truck that carries gasoline. I’m guessing he may have been blinded a bit by the sun and misjudged or didn’t see the truck coming. I didn’t see the actual crash, I only seen the car drop into the ditch.

A guy driving a UPS truck in front of me immediately pulls over and sprints to the car to help. I do the same. The car was absolutely destroyed.

We try to open the doors but of course they’re locked. The driver side was smashed in completely and we couldn’t get the back driver side door open at all due to the mangling.

In the car, the old guy is just laying there lifeless. I’m thinking he’s just sitting still, hoping so at least, but I knew.

As we are trying to help the guy a lady who happens to be a nurse is driving by and asks us if anybody is in the car and she comes over to help and checks his pulse through the window. The look of disappointment and sorrow fills her a face for a second but she keeps trying to help him.

The driver of the truck was torn. Although it wasn’t his fault, he has to live with that for the rest of his life. He could lose his job due to the fatality but he didn’t even have a chance to pump his brakes according to the UPS guy.

I’ve always been pretty terrified of death. Never accepted it. Death really makes me uneasy. I’ve been learning to accept the inevitable in life. But I’m not sure how I feel about what I witnessed today. The poor dude was just sitting there, gone when he was literally there minutes prior.

But that’s the reality of life. One day you’re here, the next you’re gone.

Cherish your life and the lives of those around you. Appreciate them.