Stark reminder that you can just be minding your own business and a twist of fate takes you out.
Going left instead of right alters the course of your life.
I once missed being killed in a car crash by seconds. Someone was looking out for me, for sure.
I was a long distance runner for decades when I was younger. Back in the day before it became very popular as a pastime.
It was unbelievable how many times people tried to run me off the road. I would be on the shoulder, just plodding along when some fool would come off the road and come so close to me, I'd have to jump in a ditch to avoid being struck. Yelling, shaking their fists at me or giving me the middle finger.
Most times it was deliberate. Occasionally, it was just an inattentive driver.
But people's worst sides come out when they see people out doing what they don't like. Or more accurately, out doing what they wish they could do and don't.
Thinking back, I'm lucky to be alive after some very close calls.
I was on a hiking trail and came across a small memento someone placed near a rock; looked at it for a few seconds then went on. A minute later a rotted tree came crashing across the trail in front of me. Had I not stopped .....