In this life I’ve spent on earth, it’s begun to occur to me that nature’s love language may be irony.

Were it not so, it would seem strange that I should have written about life just the other day… Only to have it very nearly taken away from me.

I was almost hit by a Shopee truck the other day, and the car plate number was BPU 9558 – it was moving quickly on a turn, and if I hadn’t stepped away, whether by divine intervention or random chance, I would have probably been crippled or possible unalived.

For more detail? Watch this video:

I’m pretty flippant here, but well, if we’re real for a minute here… If things had actually been just a fraction of a second, a meter, or a step different, I wouldn’t be here writing this – and neither would I have made these more extended reflections.

Value your life, guys – the universe in a very real way begins and ends with you, but to that I’d add a small question:

If you were given a second chance at life, what would you do differently, knowing what you know now?

That’s what I’ll be asking myself over the next few days, months, and years.

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