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The Journal of Ashok Sharda I met with an accident: Feb. 8th, 2004
02/12/2004 03:04 a.m.
I met with an accident. While returning from a party, accompanied by my wife occupying the front passenger seat, a car moving at almost 60 miles from the opposite direction, hit me on the left flank & sped away at a much faster pace than it had approached and hit me, as if it was a guerilla tactics of hit and run. The impact was so intense that both the cars took almost 180 degrees turn, before the drivers could apply their control & future course of action. Finding that the collision has not affected the locomotion of my car & fearing that the good for nothing crowd would gather, add to my problems and delay my departure in the wake of my wife’s condition (she had dashed twice against the side and roof of the car by the momentum of the collision), I decided to rush back home, which was not far, and assess the situation before taking further course of action. On way back home I cut a joke or two to ascertain her state & I was happy that she responded positive by laughing, though in pain.
Now, sitting here, trying to SEE the whole SCENE in retrospect, I am sure that I couldn’t have averted this event unless I was alert and capable enough to switch over my role to that of an active force than that of passive which the law of cause & effect compelled me to play at that point of space time continuum.
Yes, the hitting car was the ACTIVE FORCE, since it ran into me. I was the PASSIVE & the space (the space of the space of the accident), time (the exact time of the accident) & the situation (created by the law of cause & effect), which brought both of us exactly at this point of space, & time together was the RECONCILING FORCE. In the absence of any of these forces this accident would not have taken place like any other happening or event. But how could have I changed the cause/chain of cause and effect, turning into yet another cause, which brought all the three forces/factors together, necessary for this event to happen?
How could have I changed my role that of being a passive force in this happening to that of an active force?
Well, if I was alert and active, a bit more watchful, I would have KNOWN without knowing and the split, we know as present, would have expanded a bit. I could have SENSED what might happen before it actually happened. I could have ACTED even before consciously knowing why did I ACT. I have known and averted many events in the past. I have also failed to do so by refusing to ACT & suffered. I could have driven back home safe and scratch free if I could have switched over my role defying this game of the LAW OF ACCIDENT supported by the LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT turning it into a mere happening of non-happening. Ha! Ha! Ha!
But, who knows, if THIS HAPPENING OF A NON HAPPENING could have lead me to yet another happening, head on, this time, with a truck? Ha! Ha! So, let thank all the non-existent gods for causing this accident in order to avert another. In any case, events are inter related.I must accept my helplessness & resolve to work hard to turn my self into an active force when the situation arises. (And passive, when the need is. I am laughing hard. I have promised some one that I shall be playing a passive role in a planned accident likely to take place when the reconciling force is conducive & ready to let meet both the forces. Ha! Ha! Ha!)
The CT Scan and MRI has now confirmed that my wife has suffered no internal injuries, but for few bruises here & there & a stretched nerve compressed somewhere causing giddiness when she moves her head. They have advised her a hard belt around her neck and a complete bed rest. Bloody fools forgot to advice her complete silence, which I am trying to convince her to, now. Ha! Ha! Ha!
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