What traumatized me the most in *2024*

people talk about how traumatizing car accidents are but you never can fully understand until you are in one.

july 2nd, 2024 - I was given a wake up call. a second chance at life. I promised myself from then on out that I would try to make every minute count on this earth.

I will never forget being on the interstate spinning inside of my car thinking of how those very moments of fear would be my last on earth, who would contact my loved ones, who would find me, what happens after death, etc.

The amount of strangers who stopped alongside of the interstate to check on me reassured me that there are still good people in this world.

my anxiety & depression heightened over the following days, but if my accident didn’t teach me anything else, it taught me this… ⤵️

1. something good truly does come out of something bad. the saying “only rainbows, after rain” is so true. I lost my first car, my only means of transportation, a 2019 malibu BUT gained a 2021 malibu 2wks after! 🙏🏾

I lost something big to me, but gained something better!

in the lyrics of nicki minaj “they say that your darkest hour comes before your dawn” (I named my car DAWN for that very reason 😉)

2. it taught me to REFOCUS. I saw who I could truly depend on throughout my car accident ordeal. the same people I made myself overly available to, couldn’t even pick up the phone or send a text out, unless for THEIR benefit. this was absolutely heartbreaking, but I needed that discernment.

3. people want to see you doing good, but not better than them. (this kind of continues off number 2) but I had “friends” who were so invested in my accident and the totaling of my car… the moment I drove off the lot with my new one, I didn’t get any sort of acknowledgment from those same concerned “friends”. no congratulations, no happy recovery, no nothing. so I’ve been trying to train myself to congratulate and celebrate myself. if you don’t celebrate you, who will?

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