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How One Event Can Change a Person’s Life Trajectory
It was no ordinary accident
Today, Aug 8, happens to be the date I left my hometown and country twenty-four years ago to pursue a graduate degree in the United States. I was tired of living at home with my mother. Roles had reversed and parentification happened during the teenage years. Wanting space to breathe, I was ready to venture into the world as an adult to actively bring about a change in my life.
Little did I know that the universe was working in its mysterious ways on the magnitude of the change I desired and the impact this change would have on my life.
The accident
The night of Aug 8 when I boarded my international flight, my parents and friends went to the airport to give me a send-off. That was the night when two of my friends had a head-on collision with a truck on their way back home. It was probably past midnight and both were rushed to the emergency room.
The car did not have airbags. Fortunately, both survived the accident with a fracture to their femur bone, the left femur for one and the right femur for the other. One was taken to a private hospital for surgery and due to affordability reasons, the other one was taken to a less-expensive nursing home for his surgery.
