The In-Between

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I was living in a bubble and on May 9 2022 it burst. It was the middle of the afternoon. As my partner Vanessa and I approached a major intersection a blue car accelerated ran the red light and T-boned a black truck directly in front of us. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>BOOM!</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> The blue car's hood crumpled like an accordion to absorb the impact. Within seconds its front end was completely smashed and its windows were broken. Then everything went out of focus except for what I needed to do-assess the scene for safety check on the drivers of the blue car and black truck and call 911. Nothing else mattered-I felt a heightened sense of purpose.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I had always focused on one macro moment after another-the next mountain to climb or business to start. I hadn't spent any time appreciating the micro-moments-life </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in between </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the macros. I'd been living in a macro-moment bubble. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The accident awakened a desire to paint a complete picture of who I wanted to be and how I wanted to approach my life. This is my story of learning how to value the in-between and prioritize consciously living in the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>micro</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>