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Death Meditation VII
Daily Meditation #120
For previous installments — I II III IV V VI
You’ve been in a car accident.
You wake confused.
Your vision is blurred and skewed.
Pain pulses through every inch of your body.
It’s hard to breath and each time you draw in air, you feel crackling and something is off.
Reaching up, you feel your head. The flesh of your face and forehead are shredded and you see shards of glass all around as your vision improves. Everything is crushed, including the roof and door, molding down around your side.
Feeling your head more, you feel your skull spongily moving as it was cracked on the steering wheel. Your arm by the door is crushed into a pulp, shattered in multiple places.
Glancing to the seat beside you, you see your spouse and then your child in the back. Both are grey skinned and horrendously maimed from the glass and impact.
The EMTs are shouting to one another outside. They’re saying something, but you can’t figure it out except they can’t determine how to get you out.
“I’m too young!” you think to yourself. You and your spouse and little one were only just beginning your lives together as a family. You had just gotten your first home…
