Onyekachi oguchienti



Blessing in disguise

Last year was the worst year I ever experienced in my life, things just seemed to happen to me at such a high rate. I thought I may had been cursed; one thing in particular was getting into a car accident with a friend. when we were traveling back from New York to Boston. He was driving while I was in the back sleeping, I sometimes wonder why I had let him drive, before we left a gas station, he did bring it to my attention that he was tired. I slept through his concern, in all fairness we where both tired but I fully acknowledge that in that split second when he mentioned his concern of being tired I could have took the wheel, but laziness and bad judgment took a hold.



My feeling after the accident was one of confusion, pain, rage, sadness.  my emotions where all over the place, considering I was asleep during the accident. I couldn’t see exactly what happened, I woke up to a car reck, it was something like a dream, I remember being enclosed but being able to move in little intervals, there wasn’t much pain till this day I am not sure why. my injuries consisted of heavy bruising to my head and the loss of a two tooth. My friend endured heavy bruising, luckily, we walked away alive because the car was wrecked.



Initially I wanted to blame my friend for crashing the vehicle, but knowing that it was a complete accident, I also willingly put my life and his life in danger especially when he expressed that he was tired. I learned a very important lesson from my accident. One of them was pay more attention to people, never take for granted or overlook people’s concerns and that life is preciouses and can be gone in a split of a second